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Ruby Gentry screening with New Frontier, aka Frontier Horizon

Series: Saint and Sinner: The Tempestuous Career of Jennifer Jones [May 16 – 24]
Country: USA

“The greatest of the director's flamboyant late melodramas.” - Elliott Stein, The Village Voice

“Scandal and sweaty encounters are in abundance!” - Time Out New York


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Ruby Gentry
King Vidor, US, 1952; 82m
A narrow-minded town in the Southern bayou is the setting for this moody, romantic melodrama about an unconventional backwoods girl (a sultry Jennifer Jones) who values her independence and follows her heart right into a dark labyrinth of prejudice, hypocrisy and scandal. Harboring a powerful love for Boake Tackman (a rugged Charlton Heston), scion of a decaying blueblood clan, Ruby is too spirited and passionate to hide her feelings, especially when the upwardly mobile Boake plans to marry a more appropriate social equal. Enraged, Ruby takes revenge by accepting an offer of marriage from tycoon Jim Gentry (Karl Malden), and the die is cast for events to spring out of control. With an award-winning score featuring Larry Adler on harmonica, this no-holds-barred love story follows a pattern of desire and revenge that played out successfully in Duel in the Sun, making Jennifer Jones the most beautiful involuntary sinner in screen history.

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New Frontier, aka Frontier Horizon
George Sherman, US, 1939; 54m
The final entry in a classic B-movie serial about a trio of cowboys known as The Three Mesquiteers, New Frontier stars John Wayne in a story of manifest destiny colliding with the cruel hand of industrial progress. He’s joined onscreen by newcomer Phylis Isley, four years before she won an Oscar as Jennifer Jones.




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