
It's A Big Country
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Initial release | 1951 |
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Directors | Richard Thorpe |
John Sturges | |
William A. Wellman | |
Clarence Brown | |
Charles Vidor | |
Don Hartman | |
Don Weis | |
Box office | 655,000 USD |
Composers | Bronisław Kaper |
David Raksin | |
Adolph Deutsch | |
David Rose | |
Johnny Green | |
Charles Wolcott | |
Screenplay | Dore Schary |
William Ludwig | |
Helen Deutsch | |
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ID | 1255962 |
About It's A Big Country
This collection of eight independent vignettes presents a cross-section of America, circa 1951. Elderly Mrs. Riordan (Ethel Barrymore) is crestfallen when she learns that she was not counted in the census. Stefan (S. Z. Sakall), a Hungarian immigrant with a grudge against Greeks, objects when his daughter, Rosa (Janet Leigh), marries Greek-American Icarus (Gene Kelly). And a cowboy named Texas (Gary Cooper) gives his assessment of the state he shares a name with. …