Cass Timberlane
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Director George Sidney Music director Roy Webb Duration Country United States | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Sinclair Lewis , Donald Ogden Stewart , Sonya Levien Release date November 1947 (1947-11) Cast Spencer Tracy (Cass Timberlane), Lana Turner (Virginia 'Jinny' Marshland), Rose Hobart (Diantha Marl), Margaret Lindsay (Chris Grau), John Alexander (Dr. Roy Drover), Zachary Scott (Bradd Criley)Similar movies Ted 2 , The Judge , 12 Angry Men , Dredd , 27 Dresses , Anatomy of a Murder Tagline "In Love With Her Was Like Being in an Earthquake!" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cass timberlane 1947 title sequence
Cass Timberlane is a romantic drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Zachary Scott, directed by George Sidney, and released in 1947. It was based on the 1945 novel Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives by Sinclair Lewis, which was Lewis' nineteenth novel and one of his last.
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Plot
Former Congressman and now Judge Cass Timberlane is a middle-aged, incorruptible, highly respected man who enjoys good books and playing the flute. He falls for Jinny, a much younger girl from a lower class in his small Minnesota town. At first, the marriage is happy, but Jinny becomes bored with the small town and with the judge's friends. She leaves him for an affair with a lawyer, Timberlane's boyhood friend. Eventually abandoned by her lover, Jinny returns to her husband and becomes the good wife. The novel is Lewis' examination of marriage, love, romance, heartache and trust.
Reception
Though it received tepid critical reviews, the film was a box office hit, earning $3,983,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $1,203,000 elsewhere, but because of its high production cost, it only returned a profit of $746,000.
Radio adaptation
Cass Timberlane was presented on Theatre Guild on the Air February 15, 1953. The one-hour adaptation starred Fredric March and Nina Foch.
DVD
Cass Timberlane was released to DVD by Warner Home Video on July 6, 2010 via Warner Archives as a DVD-on-demand disc available through Amazon.
References
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