Ruby Gentry (1952)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
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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 Limited
Oct 19, 2004
Cast
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Jennifer Jones
Ruby Corey/Ruby Gentry -
Charlton Heston
Boake Tackman -
Karl Malden
Jim Gentry -
Tom Tully
Jud Corey -
James Anderson
Jewel Corey -
Josephine Hutchinson
Letitia Gentry -
Bernard Phillips
Dr. Saul Manfred -
Phyllis Avery
Tracy McAuliffe -
Herbert Heyes
Judge Tackman -
Myra Marsh
Ma Corey -
Charles Cane
Cullen McAuliffe -
Sam Flint
Neil Fallgren -
Frank Wilcox
Clyde Pratt -
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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.
Top CriticNot entirely successful, but well worth seeing.
Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.
This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.
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Foreign Titles
- Ruby Gentry (1952) (DE)
- Ruby Gentry (1952) (UK)
