1957/12/20 (US) | Romance, Drama, History
In The Great Tradition Of Civil War Romance
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.
Edward Dmytryk
Director
Millard Kaufman
Screenplay
Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff 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
$ 5,474,000
$ 9,080,000
Released
Ross Lockridge Jr.
Novel
Charles Rosher Jr.
Camera Loader
David Lewis
Producer
Millard Kaufman
Associate Producer
Thomas D. Tannenbaum
Associate Producer
Johnny Green
Original Music Composer