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This Earth Is Mine

  • 19591959
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 2h 4m
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6.3/10
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Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
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During Prohibition, Englishwoman Elizabeth Rambeau joins her winemaking California family, but while some see her as an unwanted "poor relation," others covet her affections, including her t... Read allDuring Prohibition, Englishwoman Elizabeth Rambeau joins her winemaking California family, but while some see her as an unwanted "poor relation," others covet her affections, including her troublemaker playboy cousin John Rambeau.During Prohibition, Englishwoman Elizabeth Rambeau joins her winemaking California family, but while some see her as an unwanted "poor relation," others covet her affections, including her troublemaker playboy cousin John Rambeau.
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
483
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
77,395
14,062
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    • Director
      • Henry King
    • Writers
      • Alice Tisdale Hobart(novel "The Cup and the Sword")
      • Casey Robinson
    • Stars
      • Rock Hudson
      • Jean Simmons
      • Claude Rains
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Henry King
    • Writers
      • Alice Tisdale Hobart(novel "The Cup and the Sword")
      • Casey Robinson
    • Stars
      • Rock Hudson
      • Jean Simmons
      • Claude Rains
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    • 14User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

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    Rock Hudson in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
    Rock Hudson in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
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    Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
    Rock Hudson, Cynthia Chenault, and Ken Scott in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
    Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
    Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
    Rock Hudson, Claude Rains, Jean Simmons, and Dorothy McGuire in This Earth Is Mine (1959)
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    Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons in This Earth Is Mine (1959)

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    Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson
    • John Rambeau
    Jean Simmons
    Jean Simmons
    • Elizabeth Rambeau
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Philippe Rambeau
    Dorothy McGuire
    Dorothy McGuire
    • Martha Fairon
    Kent Smith
    Kent Smith
    • Francis Fairon
    Anna Lee
    Anna Lee
    • Charlotte Rambeau
    Ken Scott
    Ken Scott
    • Luigi Griffanti
    Augusta Merighi
    • Mrs. Griffanti
    Francis Bethencourt
    Francis Bethencourt
    • Andre Swann
    Stacy Graham
    Stacy Graham
    • Monica
    Peter Chong
    • Chu
    Geraldine Wall
    Geraldine Wall
    • Maria
    Alberto Morin
    Alberto Morin
    • Petucci
    Penny Santon
    Penny Santon
    • Mrs. Petucci
    Jack Mather
    • Nelson Dietrick
    Ben Astar
    Ben Astar
    • Yakowitz
    Dan White
    Dan White
    • Judge Gruber
    • (as Daniel White)
    Lawrence Ung
    • David--Chauffeur
    • Director
      • Henry King
    • Writers
      • Alice Tisdale Hobart(novel "The Cup and the Sword")
      • Casey Robinson
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    • Trivia
      Film debut of Jean Blake Fleming.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Wild for Kicks (1960)
    • Soundtracks
      This Earth Is Mine
      Music by Jimmy Van Heusen

      Lyrics by Sammy Cahn

      Sung behind credits by Don Cornell

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    4/10
    Rambeau Family Values
    Set during the last years of Prohibition, This Earth Is Mine tells the story of the Rambeau family of the Napa Valley, prominent wine makers who are having a rough go of it during those years. Family patriarch is Claude Rains who through arranged marriages has gained control of a good deal of the real estate in the valley.

    Rains reminds me a whole lot of Melvyn Douglas in Hud, an honorable man, possibly too honorable. Even though Prohibition is killing his business, he's surviving on selling his grapes to make jelly and grape juice, he won't sell to bootleggers to make illegal wine. Not like he's got control over what happens to his grapes once they are sold, but Rains has an exaggerated and somewhat naive morality.

    Those arranged marriages aren't always the happiest ones either. Kent Smith is married to daughter Dorothy McGuire an iron willed lady, but who was in love with Anna Lee the wife of a son of Rains and the two of them had a not so discreet affair that produced Rock Hudson. He's the black sheep of the family and his parentage is just not discussed in polite company.

    But all that makes it OK for Hudson to get romantically interested in Jean Simmons the daughter of another son of Rains who is over in the United Kingdom. She's come to the USA to be the arranged bride of another landed wine family Francis Bethencourt who once considered the priesthood.

    Hudson has no such scruples about who the grapes are sold to. He organizes some of the smaller growers to sell their crops to bootleggers and some of those who resist get the usual gangster treatment. All this threatens to tear the Rambeau family apart and that's without going into what's going on with Rock and Jean.

    I compared Claude Rains to Melvyn Douglas in Hud and truth be told Rock Hudson's part was probably better suited to someone like Paul Newman. But I don't think either of them could have lifted this story above the soap opera level. This Earth Is Mine tries for an Edna Ferber epic like quality and misses.

    But for those of you who like this sort of stuff you could have seen all this and more on the Eighties prime time TV soap opera Falcon Crest where they had a matriarch of a wine growing family, Jane Wyman, who weekly was involved in some machinations trying to control all the people around her.

    This Earth Is Mine does boast some beautiful scenery of the Napa Valley and Henry King as director does do his best to breathe credibility into an unbelievable story.
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    • Jan 28, 2011

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    • Release date
      • July 17, 1959 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ova zemlja je moja
    • Filming locations
      • Christian Brothers Vineyards - 4401 Redwood Road, Napa, Napa Valley, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Universal International Pictures (UI)
      • Vintage Productions
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    • Budget
      • $3,500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 4 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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