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Run Time: 3h 2m.

IMDb: 6.3 / 10.

Genre: war movies | romance movies | drama movies

Release year: 1957.

Story: A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the onset of the Civil War.

In mid-19th-century Freehaven, Raintree County, Indiana, John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) has just graduated from high school at the top of his class, with a promising career as a writer. He is a romantic, principled idealist, believing the story of the golden raintree after which the county is named growing somewhere, most likely in the countys swamp area, searching for it because locating it would provide all the answers to lifes questions--an idea passed down from his father. John also has a strong sense of place as belonging, and there is much anticipation in the probable marriage between him and his sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint), a born-and-bred Raintree girl. However, there is an undeniable mutual attraction on first sight between him and Susanna Drake (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a visiting southern belle. Despite Susannas temporary stay in Raintree County suggesting that she and John have a limited future, they eventually do marry out of circumstance, leaving behind a heartbroken Nell. As their relationship progresses, differences in their outlooks mirroring the differences between the north and the south emerge and charge to to the forefront, both personally and on a global level with the onset of the American Civil War. Their relationship issues are also exacerbated by secrets, both facts and beliefs, Susanna is keeping about her family history, including her parents and her Black nanny being killed in a mysterious house fire when she was a child.

Abolitionist John Wickliff Shawnessy (Montgomery Clift) drifts away from his high-school sweetheart Nell Gaither (Eva Marie Saint) and enters into a passionate love affair with wealthy New Orleans belle Susanna Drake (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), but is tricked into marrying her when she falsely tells him that she is pregnant. But even after Susanna tells him the truth, he stays with her out of love. He soon learns that shes hiding a dark secret which leads her into madness that causes her to flee to the south during the Civil War, taking their son with her. John leaves home and enlists in the Northern Army as his only means to pursue Susanna.

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Montgomery Clift
John Wickliff Shawnessy

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