I was in grade school and it was like seeing our star paper dolls come to life. In 1957, MGM produced a big screen depiction of Raintree County, featuring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint. See more ideas about montgomery clift, elizabeth taylor, old hollywood. Raintree County--The MGM Movie. Interview with Rod, by Dwayne Epstein, author of "Lee Marvin: Point Blank." He was a wreck, pun not intended. IMDb // Wikipedia. Lockridge's "Raintree County" rises to that level--and, in my estimation--surpasses it. I was in town during the filming and saw Eva Marie Saint and Elizabeth Taylor filming a scene in a carriage. It was more like a TV mini-series. It also has an account of the making of the movie and its premiere. Raintree County is a slog, an utter mess, and incoherent to say the least. Anyone can start an insane asylum with an empty room and the right kind of people. He nearly died, and his facial "reconstruction" is obvious throughout most of "Raintree County". Also, he, does not look as bad as many have claimed. I don't remember much detail of the movie or the story since I saw it only once. Through once the capital of Kentucky it was a small Southern town in the 1950’s. An idea passed down from his father, John also has a strong sense of place as belonging, and as such there is much anticipation in the probable marriage between John and his sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint), a born and bred Raintree girl. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Life with Ms. Taylor proves to be a cursed existence, so Mr. Clift takes refuge as a Union soldier, after the United States Civil War breaks out. Maybe I heard it from Robert Osborne that it did try to be GWTW. I guess I went into watching it with low expectations due to the 6.3 IMDb rating. A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the on-set of the Civil War. Join the petition to have "Raintree County" restored and released on Blu-ray/DVD: http://www.facebook.com/RaintreeOnBlu In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother. All due to Montgomery Clift's accident and his drug abuse? Did he appear in any other American films (set in the USA)? ****** Raintree County (10/4/57) Edward Dmytryk ~ Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint. Did it try to hard? A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Raintree County near you. Film tersebut dibintangi oleh Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, dan Lee Marvin.. Film tersebut adalah adaptasi dari novel bernama sama karya Ross Lockridge, Jr.. Referensi A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common. The big budget production values are beautiful; the obvious expense, and the cast, helps maintain interest in the relatively weak storyline. Through once the capital of Kentucky it was a small Southern town in the 1950’s. *******************************************. Title: Raintree County (1957) 6.4 /10. Viewing will require some degree of commitment, though; it's a long movie.Early in the filming, Clift left a visit with friends at Taylor's home, and drove his car into a telephone pole. ), "How about I'm the only person in the whole darned place who's just trying to be happy". Despite Susanna's temporary stay in Raintree County which means that she and John may not have a future, they ... Monty @ 100: Unexpected ending with "The Defector", Vintage '57 (and what if there had been 10 nominees), QFest Continues Tuesday with Gospel Of Eureka, Montgomery Clift, and Knife+Heart. Use the HTML below. A web site dedicated to Raintree County, the Novel; and Shade of the Raintree, the Biography of Ross Lockridge Jr. Raintree County is an encyclopedic, mythological, ecological, Mother Earth goddess, Civil War based novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in 1948; The biography by Larry Lockridge, is a powerful scholars look at the life and suicide of his father. He is most noted for Raintree County, often considered one of the great American novels.Suffering from profound, and largely unrecognized, depression, he committed suicide two months after the novel's publication. Click here to remove banner ads from this forum. It's not GWTW, Zhivago or Lawrence. Maybe a time for a revisit. Raintree County is the story of local Indiana golden boy John Wickliff Shawnessy. Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, and Agnes Moorehead head up a strong supporting cast. Of course, Clift is on the winning side of the war - but, his personal search for happiness, in an Eden called "Raintree County", is a more difficult path to manage...Clearly, MGM was hoping for something approaching "Gone with the Wind" - and, they failed.