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4.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting and romantic!, August 19, 2000
This review is from: The Sea of Grass [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The fourth pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is pure magic. Kate is perfect as the southern belle who goes out west to marry a cattleman. Spencer Tracy is the cattleman whom Kate marries. From the start, Kate and Spencer don't see eye to eye on different issues, and an affair between Kate and Melvyn Douglas doesn't help the marriage. The cast is superb, even if parts of the movie seem to drag. Great ROMANTIC WESTERN/DRAMA!
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A sad life, July 2, 2002
This is the saddest Spencer Tracy movie I've seen. Tracy plays a prosperous cattle baron, who, although he rules his range with an iron hand, can't rule his marriage or his family, and everything else goes sour for him, too. His high-society wife from St. Louis (played by Hepburn) doesn't see eye-to-eye with him on the question of the open range, she cuckolds him by having an affair with Melvyn Douglas and having a son by him (which both Tracy and the son eventually figure out), the land endures years of droughts, squatters move in on him despite his best efforts to keep them away, with even the U.S. Calvalry even coming down on him, and his devil-may-care son is eventually killed by a posse after he kills a gambler who was insulting Tracy's honor, and worst of all, he and his wife split up for almost 20 years after just a couple of years of marriage. The story has a happy ending, though, after Tracy and Hepburn finally get together at the very end of the movie. Both are outstanding in their roles, and the movie is worth seeing despite the overall downer of a plot.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Different Sort of Tracy/Hepburn Movie, June 6, 2005
This review is from: The Sea of Grass [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I saw this movie for the first time over the weekend. I enjoyed the movie which is a sort of Western soap opera. What I found most impressive was the relationship between the two stars of the movie. Both characters came across as quite reserved which is unusual given their other performances together.
I called the movie a Western soap opera and I do so because this one will bring a few tears to more than one set of eyes. Yet it starts out with the boldness of the tale of a cattle baron. The relationship between Tracy and Hepburn reaches a crisis and its' resolution changes the direction of the movie. There is a scandal that almost slips our attention after what we're used to seeing in modern movies. In fact, it wasn't until later that I figured out the impact of some of the previous dialogue. The ending is worth hanging around for.
This movie was well-made with good direction ad decent acting. I'm not trying to put down those higher up on the bill but I thought the best acting was done by Edgar Buchanan. I was doing some math in my head; the movie begins on the Great Plains in 1880. It culminates roughly 20-25 years later bringing it into the 20th Century. However, the clothes, backdrop, transportaion modes, and technology never left 1880. If that's my biggest quibble, it can't have been too bad. This was a movie that turned out to be better than I had expected.
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