Raintree County [Import] (2-DVD)
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 15, 2007
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Castaway Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor & Eva Marie Saint | |
Performer: | Lee Marvin, Nigel Patrick, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead & Walter Abel | |
Directed by | Edward Dmytryk | |
Edited by | John D. Dunning | |
Screenwriting by | Millard Kaufman | |
Composition by | Johnny Green | |
Art Direction by | William A. Horning & Urie McCleary | |
Produced by | David Lewis | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C --
At best it's only mildly interesting.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/5 --
This mammoth color picture, which now runs twelve minutes shy of three hours, gives evidence of being outfitted with every extravagance save a script.
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New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Handsomely mounted and boasts a superb cast.
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TV Guide
Begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy.
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TIME Magazine
MGM's attempt to repeat the success of Gone With the Wind turned out to be an elephantine bore.
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Time Out
History as soap.
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Film4
A memorable if generally unsuccessful attempt by MGM to bring back the glory of Gone With the Wind.
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Chicago Reader
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Product Description:
Ideological midwestern lad John Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) lets intriguing southern belle Susanna (Elizabeth Taylor) lure him from Raintree County and his angelic hometown sweetheart (Eva Marie Saint). Wed against the advice of the locals, the pair head South and spend the next few years making each other royally miserable. As it turns out, Susanna is more than slightly neurotic as the result of some buried family secrets, and as for John...oh, why' Why did he ever leave Raintree County' Later, the Civil War breaks out, and the turmoil and troubles get even more woeful.
The film is a lengthy, stately affair, filled with lots of green meadows and fine performances, which usually transcend the stilted dialogue. Lee Marvin is excellent as a hard-drinking braggart, and Saint is even more radiant than Taylor. Unfortunately, Clift suffered a near-fatal car accident during filming, which left his face scarred and partially paralyzed. Many of his scenes in this film naturally suffer as a result of this tragedy. Hoping it would be another GONE WITH THE WIND, the producers lined up Edward Dmytryk to direct from the Ross Lockridge novel, while Johnny Green composed the excellent music, with Nat King Cole singing the title track.
The film is a lengthy, stately affair, filled with lots of green meadows and fine performances, which usually transcend the stilted dialogue. Lee Marvin is excellent as a hard-drinking braggart, and Saint is even more radiant than Taylor. Unfortunately, Clift suffered a near-fatal car accident during filming, which left his face scarred and partially paralyzed. Many of his scenes in this film naturally suffer as a result of this tragedy. Hoping it would be another GONE WITH THE WIND, the producers lined up Edward Dmytryk to direct from the Ross Lockridge novel, while Johnny Green composed the excellent music, with Nat King Cole singing the title track.
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- Sales Rank: 123,753
- UPC: 4897007031122
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