Ruby Gentry.

Ruby Corey (Jennifer Jones) is a poor backwoods girl living in the small North Carolina town of Braddock. She marries her former benefactor, Mr. Jim Gentry, whose invalid wife had recently died, despite not loving him. Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) starts a relationship with her but plans to marry a local woman with a rich family. Ruby has Boake's land flooded, ruining the crops, and he turns on her in retaliation for her actions.

Credits

Directed by
King Vidor
Cast
Karl Malden, Tom Tully, Josephine Hutchinson, Frank Wilcox, Charlton Heston, Jennifer Jones, Phyllis Avery, James Anderson, Sam Flint, Herbert Heyes, Barney Phillips, Dayton Lummis
Cinematography
Russell Harlan
Music
Heinz Eric Roemheld

Copyright

Complete catalog record
RUBY GENTRY. Bernhard-Vidor Productions. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952. 82 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 19Dec52; LP2353.

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