1957
6.4 (55 votes)
3h 8m
Genres
Romance
Drama
History
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Raintree County
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
Overview
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Key Crew
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay: Millard Kaufman
Producer: David Lewis
Director of Photography: Robert Surtees
Top Cast
Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy
Eva Marie Saint
Nell Gaither
Nigel Patrick
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles
Lee Marvin
Orville 'Flash' Perkins
Rod Taylor
Garwood B. Jones
Agnes Moorehead
Ellen Shawnessy
Walter Abel
T.D. Shawnessy
Videos
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