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20 December 1957 (USA) moreTagline:
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War RomancePlot:
A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Edward DMYTRYK Dies At 90
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Susanna Drake is among Taylor's most colorful and intelligent characterizations moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Montgomery Clift | ... | John Wickliff Shawnessy | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Susanna Drake | |
| 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 | |
| Jarma Lewis | ... | Barbara Drake | |
| Tom Drake | ... | Bobby Drake | |
| Rhys Williams | ... | Ezra Gray | |
| Russell Collins | ... | Niles Foster | |
| DeForest Kelley | ... | Southern officer |
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USA:168 min (original version) | 188 min (Turner Library Print) | Australia:160 minCountry:
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2.55 : 1 moreFun Stuff
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This film was the first to be photographed in the MGM Camera 65 process; the second was Ben-Hur (1959). Later, the process was renamed Ultra Panavision 70. It involved using a 65mm negative with the addition of lenses that applied a 1.25 X anamorphic squeeze. When projected, the aspect ratio would be 2.21:1 X 1.25 = 2.76:1. However, around 1957 theaters were still showing Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), which forced MGM to release this film only on 35mm anamorphic prints, with an aspect ratio of 2.55:1. MGM used the older CinemaScope format because it allowed for the inclusion of four-track magnetic audio, in contrast to the mono-only audio offered by 2.35:1 optical soundtrack prints. moreGoofs:
Anachronisms: While celebrating Lincoln's election in 1860, the band can be heard playing "Rally Round the Flag". This song was not penned until 1862 by George F. Root. moreSoundtrack:
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Liz is a disturbed New Orleans belle with a vision that she's part black She's the beautiful femme fatale to Eva Marie Saint's inevitable cowardly heroine As in "A Place in the Sun," Liz is used as the symbol of a particular social class and a particular kind of woman She sets her mark on an idealistic young man John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) who's looking for the mythical rain tree that contains the secret of the meaning of life
Trapping him into marriage with the lie that she's pregnant, and then proceeding to lose her hold on her sanity, Susanna detains the good and helpless John for eight years He is released, able to return to his magnificent dream and to his pure childhood sweetheart, only after tragic events
Retaining the essence of Ross Lockridge, Jr. best-seller, the movie states the equality of the unhappy romance with the Civil War: the personal drama is therefore a reflection of the nation's wounds According to the top-heavy symbolism, Susanna Drake represents the South, corrupting and dragging down the North; she's the Body contaminating the poet's Soul
Taylor plays Susanna Drake's character with an intensity that exceeds all her earlier work Montgomery Clift as the unlucky poet and Eva Marie Saint as his high school sweetheart and true love are on the remote side, but the scenes with Liz strike fire in a wonderfully brilliant way
With its battles and its formal balls, its magnificent riverboats and decayed mansions, its bordellos and madhouses, its childbirth and deathbed scenes, and its evacuation of Atlanta, Edward Dmytryk's "Raintree County," like its source, has undeniable epic dimension