Raintree County

Raintree County (1957)




Drama|Romance

Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle. But John soon learns that Susanna’s mother died in a lunatic asylum and it becomes apparent that Susanna has inherited her family’s curse for she tricked him into marriage. Frustrated with life, John leaves home by enlisting in the Northern Army and fights in Tennessee and Georgia during the terrible and brutal Civil War where he does some soul searching for himself and explores his path in life to what may lay in store for him should he return home

Director:Edward Dmytryk

Writers:Ross Lockridge Jr. (novel)
Millard Kaufman (screenplay)

Genre:Drama | Romance

Tagline:In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance

Plot:A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems.

Plot Keywords:Love | Beautiful Woman | Melodrama | Southern Belle | American Civil War

Awards:Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations more

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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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