Duration: 187mins
Content:
This Civil War extravaganza, thought by its studio to be a successor GONE Wind, was handsomely mounted and boasted a superb cast but it was dogged by seirousproblems and a story that didn't want to surrender at Appomattox but go on and on, mostly waiting for taylor to regain her southern belle sanity. Taylor is the beauteous visitor who causes every male to turn his bead in ber direction when she shows up in Raintree County, Indian, coming from exotic New Orleans on the eve of the Civil War when President Lincoln has Just taken office and his new administration is involved in controversy Clift, studying to be a teacher and questioning the morality of slavery to wnich he is opposed, is engaged to practical, down-earth saint. But Taylor, a spoiled lady of southern airistocacy, gets what she wants and she wants and she want Clift. She charms him into a romantic trance, then seduces him and later lies....
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