

In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
December 20, 1957
3h 8m
EN
Edward Dmytryk
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.

Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake Shawnessy

Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy

Eva Marie Saint
Nell Gaither

Nigel Patrick
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles


Ross Lockridge Jr., Millard Kaufman
59

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

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
US