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Tries to be GONE WITH THE WIND from the Northern point of view
RAINTREE COUNTY tries to be GONE WITH THE WIND from the Northern point of view, but falls short, mostly due to the leading man, Johnny (Montgomery Clift). Johnny is a clueless piece of eye candy who reacts to everything with a sad, puzzled expression and inappropriate calm. I'm not sure if Johnny is written that way or if it's Clift's interpretation. It's nice that Johnny stands by his wife, even after she confesses she has lied in order to manipulate him into marriage; but most normal guys would get angry. When he learns his wife is severely mentally ill, Johnny is likewise loyal without displaying any shock or sorrow. His lack of passion --- even around the two gorgeous women who are madly in love with him --- make Johnny hard to identify or sympathize with. He's not necessarily unrealistic, just not the right person for the centerpiece of an epic film. It's like GONE WITH THE WIND from Ashley Wilkes's viewpoint: not terribly thrilling. A minor character, Flash, threatens to steal the show, especially in his heroic battle scene where he holds off several Rebel soldiers so Johnny can run away. Yes, Johnny has to run in order to save his son's life. But Flash offers to sacrifice himself and Johnny just says OK and trots off with a blank expression. Other people make the important decisions for Johnny, who's mostly a follower. The film also needs editing, and the ending is tragic but the up-tempo music and the characters' smiling faces tell us this is a HAPPY ending. (It will be --- eventually --- but not minutes after witnessing something horrible). RAINTREE COUNTY is worth watching, and the story has potential. But it would have been much more exciting with Susannah (Elizabeth Taylor) as the main character. Or even Johnny's childhood sweetheart, Nell --- especially if she dropped her torch for Johnny and hooked up with Flash. Read full review
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Raintree County DVD: What a disappointment!
This is a terrible edition of the M-G-M classic Raintree County. Audio quality is dull, slightly muffled. Video quality is supposedly widescreen, but it looks like it was transferred for a standard-sized TV screen. A film shot in Camera 65 should have an aspect ratio of at least 2.35:1. Not so in this release. The film should have a running time of at least 168 minutes (general release version), but this disc runs 160 minutes due to the omission of the film’s overture and intermission/en’tracte music.
In all, Raintree County deserves a complete restoration and a quality DVD and Blu Ray release. Sadly the copy I purchased on eBay isn’t it. Definitely not recommended!Read full review
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Raintree County
This movie is way too long, the story is banal, & it gets boring as it goes on, I watched it in 2 days. Elizabeth Taylor is beautiful as always, wearing beautiful costumes, & so is Eva-Marie Saint, so it makes this movie tolerable.
I can understand why it failed at the box office. To compare it to Gone With The Wind is got to be a joke! Doesn’t come anywhere close to it.Read full review
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Not what I had hoped!
the copy seemed 3rd generation from a Video Disc.....the Overture was edited out......disappointed....thought it was going to be a new copy and not a copy of old video...….unless you do not have an original , you may want at least this copy.....I find the Video Disc copy the best!Read full review
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Great movie, with Elizabeth Taylor
I had this movie for years on vhs. Unfortunately most of the color had faded out. They have beautiful costumes in that movie. Beautiful scenery too!
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The quality of the movie was great, but the quality of the DVD was very lacking in video quality.
The movie itself was a terrific period piece. The acting perfect. But the quality of the reproduced video optics was poor being very grainy and unfocused at times. It was supposed to be wide screen though in actuality it was in full screen format. The quality of the movie was great, but the quality of the DVD was very lacking in video quality. Read full review
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Well, four outta five ain't bad!
It's a copy, has some glitches with movement in skipping ahead,,,only a couple. Easy to bear witness to.
Always liked this story and although I had a small disfavor about the price for the product, I am fine with this. Read full review
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Lousy pirated copy
This is a very bad copy of the movie that was copied by an amateur for sure. The widescreen is within a window box which makes the movie difficult to enjoy and the images are shaky and blurry. Horrible...am very disappointed after seeing it on TCM which was so vivid..Read full review
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Pleased
It is a great movie that I wanted for my collection. It was a great price and was delivered promptly. It was as promised.
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I liked the movie RainTree county.
I wrote an extensive report on why this was such a great movie, on dvd. And indeed it is. I included many things. But this system caused the respond button to go gray so my response could not be entered. All I could do was cancel.Read full review
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