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The Sea of Grass is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elia Kazan released in USA on 25 april 1947 with Katharine Hepburn
The Sea of Grass (1947)
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Add to a movie listThe Sea of Grass is a 1947 western-drama film set in the American Southwest. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The movie stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Melvyn Douglas.
Kazan was reportedly displeased with the resulting film and discouraged people from seeing it.
Synopsis
The film opens in St. Louis, Missouri, on Lutie Cameron's (Katharine Hepburn) wedding day. She has had a short courtship with a cattle rancher of New Mexico. As she dresses, she receives a telegram from her fiancé Col. Brewton (Spencer Tracy) telling her to board the train for New Mexico to marry him in the small town of Salt Fork. The first person she meets in town is Brice Chamberlain (Melvyn Douglas), who warns her of likely unhappiness with Brewton, locally considered a tyrant. He takes her to the courthouse, where she sees Brewton testifying against a settler who had tried to stake a claim to part of the government-owned land where Brewton runs his cattle.Actors
Katharine Hepburn
(Lutie Cameron Brewton)
Spencer Tracy
(Col. James B. Brewton)
Melvyn Douglas
(Brice Chamberlain)
Robert Walker
(Brock Brewton)
Phyllis Thaxter
(Sara Beth Brewton)
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