Ruby Gentry (Blu-ray)
So dangerous...destructive...deadly to love!
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 24, 2018
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Kl Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston & Karl Malden | |
Performer: | Tom Tully, Barney Phillips, James Anderson, Josephine Hutchinson, Herbert Heyes, Sam Flint & Frank Wilcox | |
Directed by | King Vidor | |
Screenplay by | Silvia Richards | |
Composition by | Heinz Roemheld | |
Art Direction by | Charles D. Hall | |
Produced by | King Vidor & Joseph Bernhard | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Harlan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry.
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New York Times
[I]t was a big box office performer even before it became a cult movie...
USA Today
Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.
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Time Out
This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.
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Film4
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There's catharsis to be found in the manner in which Ruby lays waste to her tormentors. But most of the characters lack any real depth.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: C+ --
Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Reprising much of the plot of his earlier DUEL IN THE SUN, King Vidor also chose that film's leading lady, Jennifer Jones, to fill the title role of RUBY GENTRY. Ruby Corey, a poor, beautiful young woman from the backwoods of North Carolina, lusts after Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston), scion of one of the wealthier families in town. Although far from indifferent to Ruby's charms, Boake opts to abide by his family's preference for a mate from his own social stratum. Meanwhile, Jim Gentry (Karl Malden), the wealthiest man in town--who also has an eye for the sultry young woman--asks her to marry him. To spite Boake as well as the rest of the contemptuous townspeople, she agrees. When an accident takes Gentry's life, the town holds Ruby responsible, without any justification. In the spirit of vengeance, the widow demands full payment of all outstanding debts owed to her husband, further antagonizing the town as well as threatening the survival of Tackman's fledgling business. Malden gives an excellent performance in this potboiler deftly handled by Vidor.