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It's a Big Country (1950)

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Film details

Featuring

Ethel Barrymore Keefe Brasselle Nancy Reagan
Country

USA
Year

1950
Genre

Anthology
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Seven different tales with the theme of universal love, friendship and peace as exemplified by the different races that make up America.

1. Episode One (aka Interruptions, interruptions) 2. Episode Two (aka The census taker/The lady and the census taker) 3. Episode Three (aka The Negro story) 4. Episode Four (aka Rosika the Rose) 5. Episode Five (aka Letter from a soldier/Letter from Korea) 6. Episode Six (aka Minister in Washington) 7. Episode Seven (aka Four Eyes)

two other episodes shot 8. Episode Eight (aka Texas/Lone Star) 9. Episode Nine (aka Load)

the first of these seems to have been shown on some US playdates (but certainly not in UK), but number nine has never been released.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
    
    Ethel Barrymore
  - Sgt. Maxie Klein
    
    Keefe Brasselle
  - Miss Coleman
    
    Davis, Nancy
  - Adam Burch
    
    Van Johnson
  - Icarus Xenophon
    
    Gene Kelly
  - Rosa Szabo
    
    Janet Leigh
  - Mrs. Wrenley
    
    Marjorie Main
  - Papa Esposito
    
    Fredric March
  - Mr. Callaghan
    
    George Murphy
  - Professor
    
    William Powell
  - Stefan Szabo
    
    S.Z. Sakall
  - Sexton
    
    Lewis Stone
  - Mr. Stacey
    
    James Whitmore
  - Michael Fisher
    
    Keenan Wynn
  - Narrator
    
    Louis Calhern
  - cast member
    
    Gary Cooper
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director of ep. 1
    
    Richard Thorpe
  - Director of ep. 2
    
    John Sturges
  - Director of ep. 4
    
    Charles Vidor
  - Director of ep. 5
    
    Don Weis
  - Director of ep. 6
    
    William A. Wellman
  - Director of ep. 7
    
    Don Hartman
  - Director of ep. 8
    
    Clarence Brown
  - Director of ep. 9 (unreleased)
    
    Anthony Mann
  - Production Company
    
    Loew's Incorporated
  - Production Company
    
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  - Producer
    
    Robert Sisk
  - Script for ep. 1
    
    William Ludwig
  - Script for ep. 2
    
    Helen Deutsch
  - Script for ep. 3
    
    Ray Chordes
  - Script for ep. 4
    
    Isobel Lennart
  - Script for ep. 5
    
    Allen Rivkin
  - Script for ep. 6
    
    Dore Schary
  - Script for ep. 7
    
    George Wells
  - Script for ep. 8
    
    Dorothy Kingsley
  - Story for the picture
    
    Dore Schary
  - Story for ep. 1
    
    Edgar Brooke
  - Story for ep. 4
    
    Claudia Cranston
  - Story for ep. 5
    
    Lucille Schlossberg
  - Story for ep. 7
    
    Joseph Petracca
  - Photography
    
    John Alton
  - Photography
    
    Ray June
  - Photography
    
    William C. Mellor
  - Photography
    
    Joseph Ruttenberg
  - Editor
    
    Ben Lewis
  - Editor
    
    Frederick Y. Smith
  - Art Director
    
    Cedric Gibbons
  - Art Director
    
    Malcolm Brown
  - Art Director
    
    William Ferrari
  - Art Director
    
    Eddie Imazu
  - Art Director
    
    Arthur Lonergan
  - Art Director
    
    Gabriel Scognamillo
  - Musical supervision
    
    Bronislau Kaper
  - Musical supervision
    
    Rudolph G. Kopp
  - Musical supervision
    
    David Raksin
  - Musical supervision
    
    David Rose

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