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20/12/1957 Romance, Drama, History 3h 8m
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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.

  1. Edward Dmytryk

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Elizabeth Taylor

    Susanna Drake Shawnessy

  2. Montgomery Clift

    John Wickliff Shawnessy

  3. Eva Marie Saint

    Nell Gaither

  4. Nigel Patrick

    Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles

  5. Lee Marvin

    Orville 'Flash' Perkins

  6. Rod Taylor

    Garwood B. Jones

  7. Agnes Moorehead

    Ellen Shawnessy

  8. Walter Abel

    T.D. Shawnessy

  9. Jarma Lewis

    Barbara Drake

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$5,474,000.00

Revenue
$9,080,000.00

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