Ruby Gentry
- 1952
- 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.8K
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A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Barney Phillips
- Dr. Saul Manfred
- (as Bernard Phillips)
- …
Peter Adams
- Joage--Golfer
- (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
- Engineer
- (uncredited)
George Fields
- Harmonica Player
- (uncredited)
Thomas Browne Henry
- Cotton Warehouse Owner
- (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
- Club Member at Bar
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Charlton Heston, Jennifer Jones broke two bones in her hand hitting him in a fight scene. As a result, Jones had to wear several bracelets covering up a cast.
- GoofsThe swamp background noise instead of being NC wildlife is jungle noises - Perhaps the same sound clip from Cape Fear with Gregory Peck. Both were to have taken place in the swamps of NC - yet both sounded like something out of Tarzan.
- Quotes
Ruby Gentry: Turn off the pumps.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
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RUBY - A FLAWED GEM
Jennifer Jones certainly did not get type cast in her screen roles.As a complete contrast to her normal saintly image (Duel in the Sun excepted) she plays Ruby Gentry,a Sth.Carolina girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets emotionally involved with Boake Tackman (Chalton Heston) her sometime aristocratic boyfriend who is promised (more as a property contract) to Tracy who comes from another good Sth.Carolina family.Ruby has a religous zealot brother who constantly harps on about "doom and gloom" if his sister carry's on her liaison with Boake.When Ruby realises she will not become Mrs Tackman she agrees to marry Jim Gentry -a working class local boy made good, played by Karl Malden, (funny how he always looks the same age in all his films no matter when they were filmed!).After a boating accident Jim dies and Ruby "cops the lot" arousing suspicion in the local town folk who knew Jim Gentry.There is nothing more scary than a woman scorned and when Boke rejects Ruby's last offer of money for marriage, she goes ballistic and purposely ruins his carefully cultivated fields he has reclaimed at great expense from nature but I will not divulge the ending.The poor old doctor does not press his suite enough but Ruby does not fancy him anyway. An interesting new role for JJ who certainly looks "the biz" in her tight fitting jeans!
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- m0rphy
- Jul 2, 2002
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- Budget
- $525,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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