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Ruby Gentry

Ruby Gentry (1952)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (667 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,
Directed By
Written By
Silvia Richards, Arthur Fitz-Richard
Genres
Drama, Classics
In Theaters
Dec 25, 1952 Limited

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.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Not entirely successful, but well worth seeing.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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

  • , Film4

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    everyone in the film is nuts. it's a slightly smaller scale 'duel in the sun' with a bit better acting from the leads but heston is no substitute for peck's hotness

  • AJ V


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

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