Bright Leaf
Summary:
Bright Leaf, a sprawling saga of the tobacco industry in North Carolina, began as a novel by Foster Fitzsimmons, a native Carolinian who for many years taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's theatre department. The film version of Bright Leaf has been simplified and reshaped to serve as a traditional Gary Cooper vehicle. Cooper stars as tenant farmer Bran... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Gary Cooper - (Brant Royle)
Lauren Bacall - (Sonja Kovac)
Jack Carson - (Chris Malley)
Patricia Neal - (Margaret Jane Singleton)
Donald Crisp - (Maj. James Singleton)
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Review:
Bright Leaf is a moderately engaging would-be epic about old guard vs. new guard forces in the tobacco industry. It clearly wants to be a "big" picture, but it ends up feeling like a run-of-the-mill melodrama blown out of proportion. Much of the problem is that it can't find a way to reconcile its "personal" storyline with its "ambition" storyli... Continue >>
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