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The Sea of Grass is a 1947 American Western film set in the American Southwest. It was directed by Elia Kazan and based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Conrad Richter. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, and Melvyn Douglas. Kazan was reportedly displeased with the resulting film and discouraged people from seeing it.
The Sea of Grass: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas. On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
- (2.5K)
- Drama, Western
- Elia Kazan
- 1947-04-25
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; farmers in a "sea of grass." The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch helplesslly as the sea of grass is exploited until it becomes a...
- Elia Kazan, Richard Rosson, Sid Sidman
- Spencer Tracy
35% Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) arrives in New Mexico, having married cattleman James Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. She finds that her husband...
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- Spencer Tracy
- Elia Kazan
- Western
The Sea of Grass is a 1936 novel by Conrad Richter. It is set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, and concerns the clash between rich ranchers, whose cattle run freely on government-owned land, a prairie "sea of grass", and the homesteaders or "nesters", who build fences and try to cultivate the soil for subsistence farming.
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals. This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship.
