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The Romance of Rosy Ridge is a 1947 American Western film directed by Roy Rowland, about a rural community bitterly divided during the aftermath of the American Civil War. It stars Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, and Janet Leigh in her film debut. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor .
The Romance of Rosy Ridge: Directed by Roy Rowland. With Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson. In post-Civil War Missouri, friends, relatives and neighbors find it difficult to live harmoniously together knowing that some of them fought on opposing sides during the war.
In Rosy Ridge, in the Ozark mountain region, neighbors still examine the color of a man's britches to determine on which side he fought. Memories of the brutal war are being kept alive in Rosy Ridge by a recent rash of mysterious barn-burnings in the area.
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Into a Missouri farming community living in a state of constant tension due to conflicting pro-North and pro-South sentiments ambles ex-Union soldier Henry Carson (Van Johnson), who briefly camps out at the farm of unforgiving Confederate sympathizer Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell).
Dec 31, 2014 · The Romance Of Rosy Ridge (1947) When an ex-soldier comes to a troubled town in the post-Civil War Ozarks, he gets the locals all riled up, especially when he courts the daughter of an ex-Johnny Reb who reckons the newcomer may be a damned Yankee!
When Southerner Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) welcomes a stranger, Henry Carson (Van Johnson), into his home in Rosy Ridge, Gill is suspicious of Henry's loyalties.
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Sep 5, 2016 · Van Johnson is Henry Carson, a young man who shows up at the MacBean farm in post-Civil War Missouri and seems intent on staying a while. That bothers Gill MacBean, a dad who returned to the war with a hatred of all things Yankee. He lost a brother in the war; he might have lost a son in the war.
The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Janet Leigh makes an impressive debut alongside Van Johnson in this historical romance in which a farmer's daughter falls in love with a man who fought against her family in the Civil War. 78 IMDb 7.0 1 h 45 min 1947. X-Ray 13+.
The story deals with the ending of the Civil-War between the North and South. Gill MacBean was not very thrilled about having Henry Carson getting too close to his daughter in a romantic way of speaking.
