Ruby Gentry

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07/10/2021 Jennifer Jones chews the scenery as a gal on the wrong side of the tracks who aspires to a better and richer life that she eventually gets. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 09/26/2017 Ruby Gentry is an excellent film. It is about a sexy but poor young girl who marries a rich man she doesn't love. Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston give fantastic performances. The screenplay is well written. King Vidor did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the drama and romance. Ruby Gentry is a must see. See more 05/03/2014 David O. Selznick produced vehicle for wife Jones and it seems largely like a vanity piece for Ms. Jones. Unfortunately most of the film is a bit of an endurance test, but I did like the over-the-top dramatic ending. If the rest of the film had been that wild, it may have been a camp classic. See more 05/04/2013 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 See more 02/21/2012 Conceptually this movie was awesome, a good story about a struggle of a woman from the wrong side of the tracks for acceptance in "polite society" and with a satisfying conclusion. Unfortunately, where this film failed was the overtly hammy acting from the principal cast. I loved Jennifer Jones in "Love is a Many-Splendor Thing" and Charlton Heston (from all his religious flicks plus well, he's Charlton Heston. Do you really need any reason other than that?). It was a treat watching him in this because he was so young and I didn't recognize him at first but that velvet voice is undeniable.....but the acting damn. Maybe it was because of the era, when every little emotional response has to be so darn theatrical, but it just made it so comical sometimes, it was really distracting. Otherwise, this would have been really, really cool. See more 01/21/2012 vidor does some deep fried southern gothic See more Read all reviews

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