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Bright Leaf: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson. In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes.
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- Drama, Romance
- Michael Curtiz
- 1950-07-02
Bright Leaf is a 1950 American Drama Western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal. It is adapted from the 1949 novel of the same name by Foster Fitz-Simons. The title comes from the type of tobacco grown in North Carolina after the American Civil War.
Based on the novel by Foster Fitz-Simons, Bright Leaf (1950) marked the second pairing of Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, whose magnetic sexual chemistry on-screen in The Fountainhead (1949) evolved into a real love affair off camera though Cooper was married.
Bright Leaf. Rent Bright Leaf on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Backed by a rich madam (Lauren Bacall), a Southerner (Gary Cooper) ruins a tobacco tycoon with a cigarette-making machine.
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- Michael Curtiz
- Drama
- Gary Cooper
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When the movie begins, Brant Royle (Gary Cooper) arrives back in his home town in North Carolina. He's been gone for many years and he's back to settle his uncle's estate. However, the local tobacco czar, the Major (Donald Crisp), has decided that Brant is not welcome and makes it very clear.
