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Roseanna McCoy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Nicholas Ray released in USA on 12 october 1949 with Farley Granger
Roseanna McCoy (1949)
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Add to a movie listRoseanna McCoy is a 1949 American drama film directed by Irving Reis. The screenplay by John Collier, based on the 1947 novel of the same title by Alberta Hannum, is a romanticized and semi-fictionalized account of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. The film stars Farley Granger and Joan Evans.
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Set in the late 19th century, the story focuses on the forbidden romance between the title character and Johnse Hatfield, whose families have been feuding for many years. The two meet when she is stung by a hornet while picking flowers for a picnic table at the local fair and he comes to her aid. When she discovers his identity, she angrily accuses his clan of having shot and injured her mother in the distant past. Johnse protests that Mounts, who was responsible for the accident, was innocent by reason of insanity, but Roseanna wants no part of him.Actors
Farley Granger
(Johnse Hatfield)
Joan Evans
(Roseanna McCoy)
Charles Bickford
(Devil Anse Hatfield)
Raymond Massey
(Old Randall McCoy)
Aline MacMahon
(Sarie McCoy)
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