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Tarfumes.com - Rachel and the Stranger
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $89.95
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully
Directed By: Norman Foster
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301766210
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6301766210
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: 1990-09-12
Running Time: 79
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
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Customer Rating:
Summary: PLEASE PUT ON DVD!!!
Comment: This is a wonderful movie, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been put on DVD seeing as it has three great stars - Loretta Young, William Holden, and Robert Mitchum. A good story of unfolding love and devotion in pioneer times. PLEASE PUT THIS ON DVD!
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Summary: Fun Frontier Roamnce: Lovely Young, and Holden versus Mitchum
Comment: Fun Western Film based on the early 1800s with Willaim Holden (Bridge on the River Kwai) as a frontier farmer who loses his dear wife with a son to raise. He marries the natural beauty Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife) as a marraige of conveniance as she will be his housekeeper and teacher for his son. Holden and son think lightly of Young and both treat her as a laborer and emotionally harshly as they both miss the first wife/mother. Holden and Young live under the same roof but not the same bedroom and without any physical interaction of any kind (but she is Loretta Young!). Young though plays an independent woman who plans on surival by practicing her own wilderness skills secretly adapting beyond anyone's later belief. But suddenly out of the wilderness steps the king of the masculine leer, Robert Mitchum (Cape Fear) and he immediately recognizes the chemical breakdown between husband and wife and he is ready to fullfill the void for the lucious Young. All this attention to Young awakens Holden who suddenly recognizes the person and beauty of Young and the adventure takes off as Holden and Mitchum become rivals with interceding Indians entering the fray and Young emerges as an independent Lioness. A very pleasant love triangle that perhaps has a little message, "You may not know what you have until you are about to lose it".
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Summary: Mitchum and Holden
Comment: I knew this movie had possibilities when I saw that both Robert Mitchum and William Holden were starring in it. It is a relatively short movie and doesn't take too long to draw you in. We see an opening scene of a widower in grief at his remote cabin in the wilderness. He has a young adolescent and senses the practical need of another wife to share in the amplified duties of the time and place. He heads off to the nearest established settlement in this post-revolutionary frontier. The only acceptable choice is a bonded slave woman. A non-romantic marriage is carried out for proprieties sake and the "family" returns to the remote farm. The development of relationships is the core of "Rachel and the Stranger". Holden and Mitchum are good in their roles but they are outdone by Loretta Young. The acting of the young, dyslexically-named Gary Gray, is also quite effective. I found myself drawn into this romance in the making. It has a surprisingly subtle style to it that makes it all the more effective. This is another one of those "sleepers" from the past.
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Summary: Where has this gem been hiding?
Comment: I just watched this movie for the first time. The cast is incredible. Too bad it has not been released on DVD. I would
love to know more background about the film.
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Summary: Rachel the Slave
Comment: Rachel and the Stranger is like Sarah Plain and Tall, the children's story. It concerns a man (William Holden) and his son (Gary Gray) after his wife Susan dies. He realizes that it is proper for his son to be raised by a woman and sets out to get a new wife (Loretta Young). He frees Rachel from servitude by marrying her, but she is basically treated as a maid in her new home. Her husband's traveling friend (Robert Mitchum) serves to integrate her into the family, but in the process begins a territorial fued between the two men for Rachel's affections.
Although the action isn't wildly exciting, the characters are interesting enough to carry the story along nicely. Young and Mitchum in particular contribute. Young uses her eyes and a tranquil personality to convey her character; she has much fewer lines than one might expect. Mitchum is rugged and charismatic, the jell that holds the family together. He also has quite a nice voice, with a deep Bing Crosby-esque quality about it that makes him all the more appealing.
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