Raintree County
6.3
“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.
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Cast
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Elizabeth Taylor
Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Known for
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cleopatra
Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy
Known for
I Confess
A Place in the Sun
Eva Marie Saint
Nell Gaither
Known for
North by Northwest
On the Waterfront
Nigel Patrick
Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles
Known for
The League of Gentlemen
Sapphire
Lee Marvin
Orville 'Flash' Perkins
Known for
The Dirty Dozen
Point Blank
Rod Taylor
Garwood B. Jones
Known for
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The Birds
Agnes Moorehead
Ellen Shawnessy
Known for
Bewitched
Citizen Kane
Walter Abel
T.D. Shawnessy
Known for
Fury
Holiday Inn
Jarma Lewis
Barbara Drake
Also in
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Tender Trap
Tom Drake
Bobby Drake
Known for
Meet Me in St. Louis
Warlock
Rhys Williams
Ezra Gray
Known for
Johnny Guitar
The Spiral Staircase
Russell Collins
Niles Foster
Known for
The Enemy Below
Niagara
Edward Dmytryk Director · Millard Kaufman Screenplay Ross Lockridge Jr. Author
Worldwide gross $9.1M · Budget $5.5M · United States release December 20, 1957
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Budget
$5,474,000
Worldwide gross
$9,080,000
Gross vs. budget
1.7×
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 2, 1957
Premiere · World Premiere at Brown Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky.
United States · December 20, 1957
Theatrical
France
December 17, 1958 · Theatrical
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