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Release Date: 1947

Cast: Robert Walker, Ruth Nelson, Edgar Buchanan, Melvyn Douglas, Spencer Tracy, Robert Armstrong, Phyllis Thaxter, Katharine Hepburn

Categories: Movies, Western, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Period piece, Marriage Drama, Film adaptation

The Sea of Grass is a 1947 western-drama film. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The movie stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Melvyn Douglas. According to "The Films of Katharine Hepburn", MGM had reels of stock footage of prairie, so the majority of the film was shot against a process screen showing this 'sea of grass' stock footage. Despite the talent involved in the film, Kazan was reported so embarrassed by it that he urged people not to see it. Hepburn plays a city-bred woman from St. Louis moving to New Mexico to marry a... MORE

The Sea of Grass is a 1947 western-drama film. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The movie stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Melvyn Douglas. According to "The Films of Katharine Hepburn", MGM had reels of stock footage of prairie, so the majority of the film was shot against a process screen showing this 'sea of grass' stock footage. Despite the talent involved in the film, Kazan was reported so embarrassed by it that he urged people not to see it. Hepburn plays a city-bred woman from St. Louis moving to New Mexico to marry a rancher (Tracy), who sees homesteaders as a threat to the prairie. The tension between them is worsened by her fleeting affair with a persistent admirer. LESS