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The Sea of Grass is a 1947 American Western film set in the American Southwest. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Melvyn Douglas. Kazan was reportedly displeased with the resulting film and discouraged people from seeing it.
- $2,349,000
- Pandro S. Berman
The Sea of Grass: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas. On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
- (2.4K)
- Drama, Western
- Elia Kazan
- 1947-04-25
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; farmers in a "sea of grass." The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch helplesslly as the sea of grass is exploited until it becomes a...
- Elia Kazan, Richard Rosson, Sid Sidman
- Spencer Tracy
Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) arrives in New Mexico, having married cattleman James Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. She finds that her husband is considered a tyrant by locals...
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- Spencer Tracy
- Elia Kazan
- Western
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Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes intensely dramatic in the expensive western Sea of Grass. Tracy plays cattle baron Colonel James Brewton, who staunchly opposes opening the western frontier to homesteaders.
The Sea of Grass is directed by Elia Kazan and written by Conrad Richter, Marguerite Roberts and Vincent Lawrence. It stars Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Edgar Buchanan and Harry Carey.
