Ruby Gentry

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Average Rating: 3.2/5

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Movie Info

This is an early-'50s effort that attempts to portray the shoulder-bumping, step-ahead world of the unmentionable American caste system. Jennifer Jones stars as Ruby Corey, who turns into Ruby Gentry, a poor-white Carolina girl who, when spurned by a social "higher-up" (Charlton Heston), decides to marry a Daddy Warbucks-type (Karl Malden) successful businessman to get even with her lost lover.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Classics, Drama
Directed By:

King Vidor
Written By:

Silvia Richards
In Theaters:

Dec 25, 1952 limited
On Disc/Streaming:

Oct 19, 2004
Runtime:

82 minutes
Studio:

20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Cast

Jennifer Jones
as Ruby Gentry

Charlton Heston
as Boake Tackman

Karl Malden
as Jim Gentry

Tom Tully
as Jud Corey

Bernard Phillips
as Dr. Saul Manfred

James Anderson
as Jewel Corey

Josephine Hutchinson
as Letitia Gentry

Phyllis Avery
as Tracy McAuliffe

Herbert Heyes
as Judge Tackman

Myra Marsh
as Ma Corey

Charles Cane
as Cullen McAuliffe

Sam Flint
as Neil Fallgren

Frank Wilcox
as Clyde Pratt

Dayton Lummis

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Critic Reviews for Ruby Gentry

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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.

Oct 31, 2006 | Full Review…

Hilton Kramer
New York Times
Top Critic
Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.

Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…

Geoff Andrew
Time Out
Top Critic
There's catharsis to be found in the manner in which Ruby lays waste to her tormentors. But most of the characters lack any real depth.

Apr 28, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.

Aug 21, 2009 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.

May 24, 2003 | Full Review…

Film4 Staff
Film4

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Audience Reviews for Ruby Gentry

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

Stella Dallas

Super Reviewer

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