Raintree County
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
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12/20/1957Runtime
188 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$5,474,000Revenue
$9,080,000Homepage
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A sweeping romantic epic caught between passion and duty, where a young man's heart is torn between two women as the Civil War tears the nation apart. Grand and emotionally turbulent, it grapples with the collision of personal desire and historical tragedy.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy
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
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