Raintree County (film)

Raintree County is a 1957 American Technicolor melodramatic film set during the American Civil War, directed by Edward Dmytryk. It stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin.

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey Montgomery Clift, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither Eva Marie Saint by Susanna Drake Elizabeth Taylor, a rich New Orleans girl. He has a brief and passionate affair with Susanna while she is visiting. Following her return to the South, she comes back to Indiana to tell Shawnessey she is pregnant with his child. John marries her out of honor and duty, leaving Nell heartbroken.They move south to live with Susannas family. He learns that Susannas mother went insane and died in a suspicious fire, along with Susannas father and a female slave implied as being the fathers concubine. Susanna suspects that the slave may have been her biological mother. Gradually Susanna appears to be suffering from mental illness. She tells John that she faked pregnancy to trick him into marriage. ........

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