The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

Duration: 105min

Category: Comedy Drama

Cast: Janet Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Van Johnson, Charles Dingle, Roy Rowland, Dean Stockwell, Marshall Thompson, Guy Kibbee, Elizabeth Risdon, Lester Cole, Irene Sharaff, William Bishop, James Bell, Cedric Gibbons, Jack Cummings, Russell Simpson, Selena Royle, Paul Langton, Edwin B. Willis

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Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted musical, the film is actually a fairly sober adaptation (with slight comic undertones) of a novel by Mackinlay Kantor. In the days... more

Janet Leigh made an impressive film-debut in MGM's The Romance of Rosy Ridge. Though the title suggests a lighthearted musical, the film is actually a fairly sober adaptation (with slight comic undertones) of a novel by Mackinlay Kantor. In the days following the Civil War, a Missouri farming community lives in a state of constant tension due to conflicting pro-North and pro-South sentiments. Into this situation ambles ex-Union soldier Henry Carson (Van Johnson), who briefly camps out at the farm of unforgiving Confederate sympathizer Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell). Suspecting that Carson is up to no good, MacBean is sure of it when the handsome stranger begins courting MacBean's daughter Lissy Anne (Leigh). Things come to a head dramatically when the heretofore easygoing Carson comes face to face with a band of hooded, night-riding barn burners who've been fomenting discord among the farmers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less