Country: USA
Year: 1947
Duration: 106
Missouri, 1865: after the end of the Civil War, Henry Carson, a former teacher who fought on the winning pro-North side, shows up at the house where the farmer Gill MacBean, his wife Sairy, and their two children Lissy and Andrew live. Another son, Ben, enlisted years before in the Southern army and it’s unlikely he’ll return. Henry offers to help the MacBean family work the land and repair the damage done by gangs who punish sympathizers of the defeated South. Despite the suspicions of Gill, who doesn’t trust Henry’s overly kind ways, Henry is welcomed by the family, and in particular by Lissy, who falls in love with him. Thanks to Henry, the tension in the small town where the MacBeans live slowly dissipates and during a town gathering serenity seems to return to the former enemies. But Henry is hiding a secret and the real reason why he showed up at the MacBeans’ door soon emerges.
Biography
film director
Roy Rowland
(New York, USA, 1910 – Orange, USA, 1995) the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he moved to Edendale, California, when he was ten, and the graduated from the University of Southern California before beginning his career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a script clerk, and then prop man, grip, and assistant cameraman. He was assistant director on most of the Tarzan films in the 1930s. He made his reputation directing short films, particularly the How to series starring Robert Benchley. One of them, How to Sleep (1937), won an Academy Award. He also worked with producer Pete Smith as the director of several of the short films in the Pete Smith Specialties series, and directed several of the short films in the Crime Does Not Pay series. His debut feature was A Stranger in Town (1943). He then worked with the child actress Margaret O’Brien and also directed musicals (Hit the Deck, 1955; Meet Me in Las Vegas, 1956; and The Seven Hills of Rome, 1957), comedies (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., 1953, from a story by Dr. Seuss), and westerns (Many Rivers to Cross and Gun Glory, 1957).
FILMOGRAFIA
Hollywood Party (1937), Jack Pot (1940), A Stranger in Town (1943), Lost Angel (L’angelo perduto, 1943), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Il sole spunta domani, 1945), Boys’ Ranch (Minorenni pericolosi, 1946), Killer McCoy (Pugno di ferro, 1947), The Romance of Rosy Ridge (La cavalcata del terrore, 1947), Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), Scene of the Crime (La mano deforme, 1949), The Outriders (La carovana maledetta, 1950), Two Weeks with Love (Due settimane d’amore, 1950), Excuse My Dust (Largo passo io, 1951), Bugles in the Afternoon (Squilli al tramonto, 1952), The Moonlighter (Notturno selvaggio, 1953), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Le 5000 dita del Dr. T, 1953), Affair with a Stranger (L’amore che ci incatena, 1953), Rogue Cop (Senza scampo, 1954), Witness to Murder (Ti ho visto uccidere, 1954), Many Rivers to Cross (Un napoletano nel Far West, 1955), Hit the Deck (Tutti in coperta, 1955), These Wilder Years (Quegli anni selvaggi, 1956), Meet Me in Las Vegas (Donne...dadi...denaro, 1956), Slander (I diffamatori, 1956), The Seven Hills of Rome (Arrivederci Roma, 1957), Gun Glory (L’arma della gloria, 1957), The Girl Hunters (Cacciatori di donne, 1963), Gunfighters of Casa Grande (I pistoleros di Casa Grande, 1964), Surcouf, l’eroe dei sette mari (coregia Sergio Bergonzelli, 1966).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Roy Rowland. STORY: The Romance of Rosy Ridge by MacKinlay Kantor. SCREENPLAY: Lester Cole. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sidney Wagner. FILM EDITING: Ralph E. Winters. MUSIC: George Bassman. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Elliot Morgan, Edwin B. Willis. COSTUME DESIGN: Irene Valles. CAST: Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh, Marshall Thompson, Selena Royle, Charles Dingle, Dean Stockwell, Guy Kibbee, Elisabeth Risdon, Jim Davis. PRODUCER: Jack Cummings. PRODUCTION: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
