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Ruby Gentry

Ruby Gentry (1952)

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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

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Drama, Classics

Silvia Richards, Arthur Fitz-Richard

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.

October 31, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4
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everyone in the film is nuts. it's a slightly smaller scale 'duel in the sun' with a bit better acting from the leads but heston is no substitute for peck's hotness
May 4, 2013
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Stella Dallas

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A great story, great actors, I thought it was a really cool movie.
September 5, 2010
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