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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

Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.

Drama, Classics

Silvia Richards

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 | Comment
Hilton Kramer
New York Times
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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 | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
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Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment
Geoff Andrew
Time Out Source: Time Out

This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
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A great story, great actors, I thought it was a really cool movie.

September 5, 2010
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