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When Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana, she falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals. However, John falters while he ...
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Raintree County is a 1957 American epic historical romance western film adapted from the 1948 novel of the same name by Ross Lockridge Jr. The film was directed by Edward Dmytryk and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Raintree County contains some Garden of Eden folklore; as Montegomery Clift's John makes finding its mythical raintree his goal. An interesting premise, a tale close to the Brothers Grimm. Fairhaven, as its name implies, is the idyllic hometown for Clift, Lee Marvin, Eva Marie Saint, and Nigel Patrick.
Raintree County: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick. A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1957-12-20
Aug 20, 2017 · An adaptation of a book by Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree County has the ingredients that could have created a rousing epic: a civil war setting, a mismatched romance, a clash of ideas between progressive idealism and prevailing oppression, academic discourse, and plenty of melodramatic personal tragedies.
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Feb 6, 2004 · Based on the novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. Raintree County tells the story of John Wickliff Shawnessy (Clift) a young idealistic student who dreams of becoming an important writer like his idol Byron. He is shown as a sensitive but all around regular guy.