

1952·Drama·1h 22m
7.1
★







A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Directed by King Vidor
class
swamp
revenge
debt
accident

Trailer

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Cast

Jennifer Jones
Ruby Gentry

Charlton Heston
Boake Tackman

Karl Malden
Jim Gentry

Tom Tully
Jud Corey

James Anderson
Lucien/Jewel Corey

Josephine Hutchinson
Letitia Gentry

Phyllis Avery
Therese/Tracy McAuliffe

Herbert Heyes
le juge Tackman

Charles Cane
Charlie/Cullen McAuliffe

Sam Flint
Neil Fallgren

Frank Wilcox
Clyde Pratt

Barney Phillips
dr. Saul Manfred/Louis
Crew

King Vidor
Director

Heinz Roemheld
Original Music Composer

Russell Harlan
Director of Photography

King Vidor
Producer

Terry O. Morse
Supervising Film Editor
Popular Reviews
4 reviews
Chip
10.0★ · 06/05/23

Love watching a movie that feels made just for me. Stunningly gorgeous lead actress, southern cultural setting, overtly religious in its imagery and motifs. King Vidor delivers such a tight and relenting masterpiece in just 82 minutes, and I'd have loved to watch triple that amount.
Might as well just kind of wax poetic about Jennifer Jones here. This is my first movie with her in the cast and it feels like I've wasted so much time taking this long to finally get here. She is electrifying as Ruby and commands a goliath-type presence whenever she's on the screen, which thankfully is almost the entire movie. Her hammed up southern accent plays with grace coming from someone as captivating as her, to the point where you don't even notice it so much as the time passes.
Hang that party dress(you'll know the one when you see it) from the rafters bc this was a performance of a lifetime.
Might as well just kind of wax poetic about Jennifer Jones here. This is my first movie with her in the cast and it feels like I've wasted so much time taking this long to finally get here. She is electrifying as Ruby and commands a goliath-type presence whenever she's on the screen, which thankfully is almost the entire movie. Her hammed up southern accent plays with grace coming from someone as captivating as her, to the point where you don't even notice it so much as the time passes.
Hang that party dress(you'll know the one when you see it) from the rafters bc this was a performance of a lifetime.
Love watching a movie that feels made just for me. Stunningly gorgeous lead actress, southern cultural setting, overtly religious in its imagery and motifs. King Vidor delivers such a tight and relenting masterpiece in just 82 minutes, and I'd have loved to watch triple that amount.
Might as well just kind of wax poetic about Jennifer Jones here. This is my first movie with her in the cast and it feels like I've wasted so much time taking this long to finally get here. She is electrifying as Ruby and commands a goliath-type presence whenever she's on the screen, which thankfully is almost the entire movie. Her hammed up southern accent plays with grace coming from someone as captivating as her, to the point where you don't even notice it so much as the time passes.
Hang that party dress(you'll know the one when you see it) from the rafters bc this was a performance of a lifetime.
Might as well just kind of wax poetic about Jennifer Jones here. This is my first movie with her in the cast and it feels like I've wasted so much time taking this long to finally get here. She is electrifying as Ruby and commands a goliath-type presence whenever she's on the screen, which thankfully is almost the entire movie. Her hammed up southern accent plays with grace coming from someone as captivating as her, to the point where you don't even notice it so much as the time passes.
Hang that party dress(you'll know the one when you see it) from the rafters bc this was a performance of a lifetime.
dthyo afupts
8.5★ · 08/23/25

Claypolian
5.0★ · 05/09/25

utahjohnny
10.0★ · 02/04/25
