Ruby Gentry

So dangerous...destructive...deadly to love!
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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 24, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1952
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 684
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. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Apr 28, 2018
[I]t was a big box office performer even before it became a cult movie...
USA Today
Oct 22, 2004
Rating: C+ -- Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aug 21, 2009
This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry. Full Review
New York Times
Oct 31, 2006

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.

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  • UPC: 738329228378
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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