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Raintree County

Year:
Duration:
USA:168 min (original version) | 188 min (Turner Library Print) | Australia:160 min
Genres:
Drama | Romance | War | Western
IMDB rate:
6.4
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1957-12-20
Filming Locations: Danville, Kentucky, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy
Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake 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
DeForest Kelley
Southern Officer
Ruth Attaway
Parthenia (uncredited)
Oliver Blake
Jake - Bartender (uncredited)
Nesdon Booth
Spectator (uncredited)
Henry Brock
Minor Role (uncredited)
Don Burnett
Tom Conway
William Challee
Spectator (uncredited)
Phil Chambers
Starter (uncredited)
Josephine Cummins
Woman (uncredited)
Jack Daly
Photographer (uncredited)
Michael Dante
Jesse Gardner (uncredited)
Phyllis Douglas
Girl (uncredited)
Michael Dugan
Nat Franklin (uncredited)
John Eldredge
Cousin Sam (uncredited)
Robert Foulk
Pantomimist (uncredited)
Sue George
Girl (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
Madame Gaubert (uncredited)
James Griffith
Mr. Gray's Searching Companion (uncredited)
Myrna Hansen
Lydia Grey (uncredited)
Stacy Harris
Union Lieutenant (uncredited)
Rosalind Hayes
Bessie (uncredited)
Judi Jordan
Girl (uncredited)
Frank Kreig
Spectator (uncredited)
Janet Lake
Girl (uncredited)
Luana Lee
Girl (uncredited)
Mickey Maga
Jim Shawnessy - Age 4 (uncredited)
Owen McGiveney
Blind Man (uncredited)
Gardner McKay
Bearded Soldier (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Bummer - Union Soldier (uncredited)
Burt Mustin
Old Gent with 'Flash' (uncredited)
Milicent Patrick
Minor Role (uncredited)
Christopher Riordan
Spectator / Union Soldier (uncredited)
Eileen Stevens
Miss Roman (uncredited)
Robert Stevenson
Spectator (uncredited)
Bill Walker
Old George (uncredited)
Charles Watts
Party Guest (uncredited)
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Trivia
This film was the first to be photographed in the MGM Camera 65 process; the second was Ben-Hur (1959). Later, the process was renamed Ultra Panavision 70. It involved using a 65mm negative with the addition of lenses that applied a 1.25 X anamorphic squeeze. When projected, the aspect ratio would be 2.21:1 X 1.25 = 2.76:1. However, around 1957 theaters were still showing Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), which forced MGM to release this film only on 35mm anamorphic prints, with an aspect ratio of 2.55:1. MGM used the older CinemaScope format because it allowed for the inclusion of four-track magnetic audio, in contrast to the mono-only audio offered by 2.35:1 optical soundtrack prints.
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The all-too-brief scenes which Montgomery Clift shot for this picture just before his accident represent the only color footage available of him before he was disfigured. All of his previous movies had been shot in black and white.
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On May 12, 1956, during the shooting of this film, Montgomery Clift was involved in a serious car accident on his way back home from a party at the house of Elizabeth Taylor. His friend Kevin McCarthy witnessed the accident from his car, drove back and informed Taylor and her then husband Michael Wilding, who immediately drove to the location together with Rock Hudson. Taylor entered the car through the back door, crawled to the front seat and removed the two front teeth from Clift's throat that threatened to choke him. Hudson finally managed to pull him out of the wreck and together they protected him from being photographed until the ambulance arrived. This was necessary because soon after the emergency call had come in to the local police station, reporters were already on their way and arrived at the scene when Clift was still in the car. The accident was well publicized. After nine weeks of recovery and with plastic surgery, Clift returned to the movie set and finished the film, but with considerable difficulties. His dashing looks, though, were gone forever. If you notice in some scenes, his nose and chin look different, and the left side of his face is more or less immobile.
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Goofs
At the party celebrating Lincoln's election, a guest smears charcoal on some of his face. In the next shot, his face is almost entirely black.
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While celebrating Lincoln's election in 1860, the band can be heard playing "Rally Round the Flag". This song was not penned until 1862 by George F. Root.
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After Lincoln's 1860 election, the crowd sings "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". However, Julia Ward Howe wrote the poem, on which the song was based, for the Atlantic Monthly in 1861.
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Quotes
Cousin Sam: We in the South dream of a great republic on the soil of America. Within its pillared homes dwell the most beautiful women.
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John Wickliff Shawnessy: My students seem to enjoy creepin' up on me.
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Ellen Shawnessy: Did you ever hear your father's sermon on the evils of tobacco? Ends with a regular poem: "Some do it chew, and some do it smoke, while some it up their noses do poke."
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Photos from cast
Isabel Cooley Donald Losby
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