- Status: Completed
- Score: 6.4/10
- Director: Edward Dmytryk
- Country: English
- Year: 1957
- Duration: 168 min
- Genres: Drama,Romance,War,Western,
- Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the on-set of the Civil War.
It’s the mid nineteenth century in Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana. John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled, and an idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree – after which the county is named – growing somewhere, most likely in the county’s swamp area, searching for and locating it which would provide all the answers to one’s life questions. An idea passed down from his father, John also has a strong sense of place as belonging, and as such there is much anticipation in the probable marriage between John and his sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint), a born and bred Raintree girl. However, there is an undeniable mutual attraction on first sight between John and Susanna Drake (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a visiting southern belle. Despite Susanna’s temporary stay in Raintree County which means that she and John may not have a future, they …
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