
“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.
Release Date: 12/20/1957
Runtime: 188 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Budget: $5.5M
Revenue: $9.1M
Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Countries: United States of America
Nell Gaither

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

Walter Abel
T.D. Shawnessy

Jarma Lewis
Barbara Drake

Tom Drake
Bobby Drake

Rhys Williams
Ezra Gray

Russell Collins
Niles Foster

2014