Spencer Tracy
Col. James B. "Jim" Brewton
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The Sea of Grass is a 1947 American Western film set in the American Southwest. [3] [4] 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 .
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a married couple in conflict over his cattle ranch in New Mexico. The film, directed by Elia Kazan, was a box office success but received mixed reviews from critics and audiences.
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- Drama, Western
- Elia Kazan
- 1947-04-25
The Sea of Grass is a 1936 novel by Conrad Richter. It is set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, and concerns the clash between rich ranchers, whose cattle run freely on government-owned land, a prairie "sea of grass", and the homesteaders or "nesters", who build fences and try to cultivate the soil for subsistence farming.
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
A western film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as a married couple on the American frontier. The plot involves their conflicts with the locals, their children, and the exploitation of the grasslands.
3.76. 574 ratings97 reviews. Published in 1936, this novel presents in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, The Sea of Grass concerns the often violent clashes between the pioneering ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or ...
