Raintree County
When Southern belle Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) visits Indiana, she falls for John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift), an abolitionist with strong ideals. It's also when the Civil War and her past create problems.
10 July 1903
28 March 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
6 December 1900, Clinton, Massachusetts, USA
12 October 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 May 1884, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
5 June 1931, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
25 May 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 October 1912, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
26 September 1912, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
February 26, 1901 in Alameda, California, USA
25 November 1937, Redwood City, California, USA
March 23, 2011
Handsomely mounted and boasts a superb cast.
May 24, 2003
History as soap.
June 24, 2006
MGM's attempt to repeat the success of Gone With the Wind turned out to be an elephantine bore.
January 01, 2000
A memorable if generally unsuccessful attempt by MGM to bring back the glory of Gone With the Wind.
March 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.
July 13, 2011
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.
March 25, 2006
This mammoth color picture, which now runs twelve minutes shy of three hours, gives evidence of being outfitted with every extravagance save a script.
March 30, 2007
At best it's only mildly interesting.
March 23, 2011
Begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy.
