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Plot Summary for Raintree County (1957) Idealist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Cliff) drifts away from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate, but loveless, marriage with Susanna Drake (Elizabeth Taylor) a wealthy New Orleans belle. But John soon learns that Susanna's mother died in a lunatic asylum and it becomes apparent that Susanna has inherited her family's curse for she tricked him into marriage. Frustrated with life, John leaves home by enlisting in the Northern Army and fights in Tennessee and Georgia during the terrible and brutal Civil War where he does some soul searching for himself and explores his path in life to what may lay in store for him should he return home. Summary written by Matt Patay

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Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches; 6.13 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Edward Dmytryk
Run time ‏ : ‎ 173 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ May 19, 2005
Actors ‏ : ‎ Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin
Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM/UA
Producers ‏ : ‎ Davis Lewis
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0009Q9AV0

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It was in great shape

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2022

It was great

Esoterically Enigmatic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2007

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I like RAINTREE COUNTY. I rate it in my top 10 or 20 films. (If you rank films it often seems we need more space in our top 10 doesn't it?) Essentially the film seems magical for me. It is a somewhat offbeat and disturbing epic that seems to captivate the viewer. In one instance it demonstrates tried and true Hollywood conventional storytelling at its best. Yet at other times it goes off into a nether land of the mysterious wonderment of what the beautiful side of life holds for the passionate seeker of such exquisite bewilderment. And still yet it juxtaposes this quest for seeking the secret of such profound and beautiful emoluments of nature to a darker and mysterious side the human psyche that befuddles and hinders the quest and ability to appreciate these wonders. All this set against the backdrop of the Civil War the film seems to somehow mirror and metaphorically explain the complexities of the conflict without truly stating in strong visual terms the sentiments of the North and South. The Civil War was a conflict characterized initially as one of nobility to a cause, clouded by dreams of glory that eventually came to a realization that all the death and destruction and waste of human energies was neither noble and certainly was not characterized by ideals of glory or other such aspirations.

I suppose I could go on at length and talk about many of the esoterically interesting aspects of RAINTREE COUNTY but one scene really comes to mind and continues to captivate me. Late in the film during the Civil War sequence Lee Marvin gives one of the most wonderful lines in the film that sort of sums up the realization of what RAINTREE COUNTY really means. He yells out across to a band of rebels behind the thick brush, "I come from Raintree County." And then he speaks softly to himself in fond memory "I come from Raintree County." He has come full circle. The Raintree means many things to those that believe. This one tender moment of reflection by Marvin, "Flash" Perkins, affirms that. On a personal note Montgomery Clift's real life disfiguring accident during this film only heightens the enigmatic quality that this film holds. We truly don't know what could have been. We can only wonder and believe that something greater was at work on this production. Johnny Green's low-key emotionally fervent and almost unearthly score beckons the viewer to imagine greater things that can be only be inspired from some spiritual notions from the heavens. Both Elizabeth Taylor's and Eva Marie Saint's competition for Montgomery Clift's affections take second place to Clift's yearning for truth and understanding spurned by the expressive performance of Nigel Patrick as Professor, Jerusalem Webster Stiles, who has continually mystified Clift's yearning for life's answers. And so it happened long ago in RAINTREE COUNTY.

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Pembroke

Bittersweet Love Story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2014

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Love triangle with Montgomery Cliff, Elizabeth Taylor, and Eva Marie Saint. Cliff and Saint are a couple discovering love. Taylor comes to town and moves in on Cliff and sweeps him off his feet with her beauty. But Taylor has some issues.... mental issues that could be classified as "Bi-Polar". She suffers from extreme paranoia and mood swings that left her now husband (Cliff) feeling like he was in a whirlwind, not knowing what triggers her and why she was so pathological. Eva Marie Saint takes a back seat unselfishly because she still loves Cliff but is concerned that he will become destroyed by Taylors erratic behavior. The story branches out in to Cliff delving into Taylors past and discovers why she is so paranoid. He, being a doctor, tries every attempt to help cure her and that proves to be challenging and disappointing. The movie has a"Gone with The Wind" theme; plantation, slaves, abolitionism, war, freedoms.... very good movie but bittersweet story.

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D. MCGOWIN

Rantree County vhs

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2010

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Raintree County is my favorite film of the civil war period (move over GWTW). This VHS is the only media besides book we can today journey back into the time.
The film's brilliant scenes, costumes,and super star cast grab you from the first scene until the last. While GWTW told the story of the plantationed Southerner during the devastation of the Civil War, Raintree County centers around a small town Indiana boy (Montgomery Clift, his hometown sweetheart, Eva Marie Saint, and a sultry and vivacious Southern belle (Elizabeth Taylor) who moves into the town and his life, turning both upside down. A beautiful love story evolves, entwined with the human conscience, the abolition movement and birthing poliitics. The vhs also solves a long held mystery, a family secret, and illustrates beautifully the destruction that mystery has on the live and sanity of Elizabeth Taylor's character.
The vhs is Korean made, and the tape may have minor blurs, but overall it is an excellent video, and the only one in town of Raintree County.
(I planted a golden raintree in prominence on my own property due to this film.)

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Catseye

Not true to book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2011

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I LOVED the book! It is very long but I think, compelling, and very educational about the Civil War. Even though it is fiction, as far as the war goes, the writing about it is based in fact.
Trying to make a movie from this book just seems impossible. To do it, liberties were taken and the story changed in some major ways, including how it all ends. There are few movies that can do justice to a great book, so the movie was pretty good considering the enormity of the undertaking, but it did not do as good a job as was done with Gone With the Wind. That movie is my all-time favorite movie. However, this movie is quite good and the actors are perfectly cast, so I would definitely like to own it for that reason.

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wiser consumer

Civil War soap

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2011

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I've always loved this movie but never figured out why until recently -- it's the music. I've always had a liking for melancholy music (like Rachmaninoff) but don't know why. Inherited, I suppose.
The movie itself is good but not great. I like the way Monty Clift played his part -- assured but not cocky, seeming to say only what was needed when it was needed. Liz did a good job, too. There's one scene that takes place on the bottom of their bed, where she's trying to explain the fire, the doll, and what it all meant, and which was extended and had to require decent acting ability to make credible.
The ending is murky as to what really happened. But I still love the movie. Were the music different, then probably not so much.

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Mr Robin Hood

of which I was pleased. Pity this movie is not on DVD

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2014

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Very fast delivery,also owner contacted me about format ,of which I was pleased.Pity this movie is not on DVD.

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Meredith Folsom

So many good actors and actresses

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2015

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So many good actors and actresses, such a lush setting for visuals, but it just doesn't have the magic of a good move.

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Virginia B. Bush

Product exactly as described. The movie is full of ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 10, 2014

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Product exactly as described. The movie is full of twists and turns all wrapped around a raintree hidden in the swamps. A hint of voodoo and insanity make the story exciting.

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