Raintree County

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Raintree County

1957,

2h 48m,

Drama

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10%

10 Reviews

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51%

500+ Ratings

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10 Reviews

51%

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500+ Ratings

When Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana, she falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals. However, John falters while he lets Drake tempt him away from his true love, Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint). After Drake deceives John into marriage, the two move to her New Orleans household, where he discovers that mental illness runs in her family. When the Civil War begins, John uses it to escape from the unhappy marriage.

TIME Magazine

Mar 23, 2011

Begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

Picture lacks highlight material; even the war scenes don't quite have the necessary impact and the relationship between Taylor and Clift could have been charged up more.

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

MGM's attempt to repeat the success of Gone With the Wind turned out to be an elephantine bore.

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Chase Burns

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Dec 8, 2021

The film is often problematic and criminally boring.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 13, 2011

C+

The acting of Liz Taylor and Monty Clift is not bad, but MGM's effort to recreate another successful Civil war melodrama in the mold of Gone With the Wind is disppointing for many different reaons.

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TV Guide

Mar 23, 2011

3/4

Handsomely mounted and boasts a superb cast.

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Anakin P

Mar 5, 2019

This one belongs in soap opera heaven, but several pegs lower than the daily TV fare of the networks. Nothing really works and who in their right mind would choose an out of control southern belle lunatic, like Taylor, over the beautiful and rational Eva Marie Saint? It's all too unbelievable, and, by the end, who really cares anyway? Taylor seems lost in her dizzying world of emotional excess and Clift is fighting for someone who doesn't exist.

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Feb 2, 2019

The best romance movie ever made! With the best movie score ever composed!

Harry S

Mar 19, 2018

A chic-flick sold as an adventure film. Great sets, costumes, & cinematography; this civil war epic might have been edited down to near obscurity or else the director failed to capture the scope of the script. Either way it seems that two entwined tales share the narrative instead of one tale dominating with extra bits shown for context. Making for a film that feels just a tad incomplete. Watch for scene stealing Lee Marvin, with an out of character appearance by Rod Taylor and an in-character appearance by native Georgian DeForrest Kelly.

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Hermione G

Nov 15, 2008

When is this coming out on dvd? I have been waiting.

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Edward Dmytryk

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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

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Synopsis

When Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana, she falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals. However, John falters while he lets Drake tempt him away from his true love, Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint). After Drake deceives John into marriage, the two move to her New Orleans household, where he discovers that mental illness runs in her family. When the Civil War begins, John uses it to escape from the unhappy marriage.

Director: Edward Dmytryk
Producer: David Lewis
Screenwriter: Millard Kaufman
Production Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Jan 15, 2007
Runtime: 2h 48m

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