The Sea of Grass (film)

The Sea of Grass is a 1947 westerndrama film set in the American Southwest. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The movie stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Melvyn Douglas.

The film opens in St. Louis, Missouri, on Lutie Camerons Katharine Hepburn wedding day. She has had a short courtship with a cattle rancher of New Mexico. As she dresses, she receives a telegram from her fianc Col. Brewton Spencer Tracy telling her to board the train for New Mexico to marry him in the small town of Salt Fork. The first person she meets in town is Brice Chamberlain Melvyn Douglas, who warns her of likely unhappiness with Brewton, locally considered a tyrant. He takes her to the courthouse, where she sees Brewton testifying against a settler who had tried to stake a claim to part of the governmentowned land where Brewton runs his cattle.Back at the ranch, Brewton takes her out to see the vast prairie. He explains how he had fought with Indians to run his cattle there and to make it fit for ranching. He runs his cattle on governmentowned land, and opposes homesteaders because he believes the Great Plains do not get enough rain to sustain farming. Lutie struggles to understand Brewtons attraction to the forbidding prairie, but she tries to make the most of her new home. ........

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