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The Sea of Grass

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The Sea of Grass (1947)

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Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: The epic battle between the ranchers who are fighting to maintain the open range and the homesteaders who want to fence it in is played out against a backdrop of family melodrama. City girl Lutie... The epic battle between the ranchers who are fighting to maintain the open range and the homesteaders who want to fence it in is played out against a backdrop of family melodrama. City girl Lutie Cameron settles down with rich cattle baron Jim Brewton on his Southwestern ranch. Brewton's abiding passion for the what he calls the "sea of grass" blinds him to the suffering of the farmers he is driving off the range. Appalled by her husband's ruthlessness, Lutie takes up with a conscientious lawyer who is trying to help the destitute homesteaders. Brewton banishes his wife from his home, retaining custody of the son born out of Lutie's adultery.. Though Brewton proves a good and loving father to his adopted son, the boy grows up tormented by his own illegitimacy. The resulting tragedy brings Lutie and Brewton face to face again after years apart. [More]

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter, Robert Walker, Edgar Buchanan, Harry Carey, Ruth Nelson

Director: Elia Kazan

Director: Elia Kazan
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Composer: Herbert Stothart

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To the credit of Elia Kazan, it must be said that his direction has pace, but the writers and others have betrayed him.

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Film is loaded with very superior acting and spectacular imaginative photography.

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At 131 minutes, this sprawling western was long on talk and short on action.

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Kazan had only made one previous film, and the stilted melodrama reflects the director's inexperience as he failed to get more than adequate performances from the two leads, whom he felt intimidated by.

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