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Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry. Born into a poor-white-trash Southern family, Ruby intends to improve her lot by marrying into wealth. Her casual beau Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) considers Ruby unfit for marriage, but prosperous businessman Jim Gentry (Karl Malden) is eager and willing to make her his wife. Gentry dies in an accident, and the consensus of opinion is that he was killed by the covetous
Dec 25, 1952 Wide
Oct 19, 2004
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Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry.
Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.
Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.
This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.
A great story, great actors, I thought it was a really cool movie.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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