Ruby Gentry

Ruby Gentry (1952)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (658 ratings)

Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry. Born into a poor-white-trash Southern family, Ruby intends to improve her lot by marrying into wealth. Her casual beau Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) considers Ruby unfit for… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By
King Vidor
Written By
Silvia Richards
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Dec 25, 1952 Wide
On DVD
Oct 19, 2004

Critic Reviews

  • Hilton Kramer, New York Times

    Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in Duel in the Sun as the titular heroine of Ruby Gentry.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Southern swampland romantic drama that's filled with an almost hysterical emotional fervor.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.

  • , Film4

    This is sweeping, unconvincing melodrama which is nonetheless compulsively watchable.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    A great story, great actors, I thought it was a really cool movie.

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