Rotten
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Raintree County
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
1957 · 3h 8m · Approved
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Edward Dmytryk
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Edward Dmytryk Director
- Elizabeth Taylor as Susanna Drake Shawnessy
- Montgomery Clift as John Wickliff Shawnessy
- Eva Marie Saint as Nell Gaither
- Nigel Patrick as Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles
- Lee Marvin as Orville 'Flash' Perkins
- Rod Taylor as Garwood B. Jones
- Agnes Moorehead as Ellen Shawnessy
- Walter Abel as T.D. Shawnessy
- Jarma Lewis as Barbara Drake
- Tom Drake as Bobby Drake
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
10%
Tomatometer
Rotten
MGM's attempt to repeat the success of Gone With the Wind turned out to be an elephantine bore.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
This mammoth color picture, which now runs twelve minutes shy of three hours, gives evidence of being outfitted with every extravagance save a script.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
A memorable if generally unsuccessful attempt by MGM to bring back the glory of Gone With the Wind.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy.
TIME Magazine
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