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Rachel and the Stranger is a american film of genre Drama directed by Norman Foster released in USA on 2 october 1948 with Loretta Young
Rachel and the Stranger (1948)
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Add to a movie listRachel and the Stranger is a black-and-white 1948 western film starring Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. The Norman Foster-directed film was one of the few to address the role of women in the pioneer west, as well as portray early America's indentured servant trade. It was based on the Howard Fast short story "Rachel".
While the film had a low budget, it was RKO's most successful film that year, making $395,000.
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In colonial America, David Harvey (William Holden), a recent widower living in the wilderness, decides that his young boy Davey (Gary Gray) needs a woman around to help raise him. He goes to the nearest settlement and consults Parson Jackson (Tom Tully). David gets talked into buying the contract of an indentured servant named Rachel (Loretta Young) and marrying her.Actors
Loretta Young
(Rachel)
William Holden
(David “Big Davey" Harvey)
Robert Mitchum
(Jim Fairways)
Tom Tully
(Parson Jackson)
Gary Gray
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