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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.
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.
The novel, set in fictional Raintree County, Indiana, is essentially in two parts; before the Civil War and after. It spans the 19th century history of the United States, from the pre-Civil War westward expansion, to the debate over slavery, to the Civil War, to the Industrial Revolution and the Labor Movement which followed.
In mid-19th-century Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana, John Wickliff Shawnessy ( Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer.
Raintree County (1957) -- (Movie Clip) There Are No Neutrals! John (Montgomery Clift) chases down his erstwhile girlfriend Nell (Eva Marie Saint) in the Indiana woods and, as they try to reconcile, meets vigilantes seeking the professor, in the Civil War epic Raintree County, 1957.
Dec 3, 2021 · Raintree County. 1957 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1948 novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. Directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Millard Kaufman, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eve Marie Saint.
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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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Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County (1948), a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the "Great American Novel," and for his death by suicide just as it was reaching the top of the best-seller lists. &
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.
