Just before the big oil discoveries, a Texan rancher visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse and falls in love with the owner's daughter, then they marry and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) unfolds across two generations.
Visually stunning but interminable, insufficiently plotted and pretty unconvincing family saga from a sprawling period book, that only intermittently grabs the interest, with new method acting talents (James Dean, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper) undoubtedly steal the show from the old conventionals. Dean's sudden tragic death after the shooting provided it with a somewhat undeserved reputation.
Visually stunning but interminable, insufficiently plotted and pretty unconvincing family saga from a sprawling period book, that only intermittently grabs the interest, with new method acting talents (James Dean, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper) undoubtedly steal the show from the old conventionals. Dean's sudden tragic death after the shooting provided it with a somewhat undeserved reputation.