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1957 Romance Drama History 3h 8m

Raintree County

"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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Principal Cast

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

DeForest Kelley

Southern Officer

Eileen Stevens

Miss Roman

Luana Lee

Girl (uncredited)

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