Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

spotted-owl "Ruby Gentry" (1952) is an intense melodrama about a love-hate relationship, obsessive love, social class injustice, and revenge. Ruby (Jennifer Jones) is a sultry young woman who lives near a swamp in the small town of Braddock, North Carolina. She has black hair and a porcelain complexion. Her hourglass figure looks great in jeans and shirt. Most of the men in town desire her.Ruby is rejected by the townspeople because she is poor and from the wrong side of the tracks. She also intimidates people with her beauty, wild spirit and strong will. The tempestuous beauty is a hellcat one minute, and sweet the next. She endures many put-downs from the snobby townspeople. As the film progresses, Ruby changes from a wild-spirited but basically good person into a cold, powerful woman who takes vindictive revenge on the town.Ruby is obsessed with Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston), a handsome rogue from a local aristocratic family that became impoverished. They have a love-hate relationship, with a lot of passion and fighting. In one scene, Ruby the hellcat scratches Boake's face, but he doesn't seem to mind. However, Boake is driven by his ambition to restore his family's fortune by turning his land into a productive farm. He marries a local socialite, and then suggests that Ruby become his mistress. Ruby is insulted and angry.Jim Gentry (Karl Malden), a local rich man, pursues Ruby, and she marries him. Now she is "Ruby Gentry." ("Gentry" means upper class. A ruby is a gemstone symbolizing love and passion.) Jim is a kind and decent person, and Ruby truly loves him. However, at a party, Ruby's obsession with Boake leads her into a romantic encounter with him. (In this scene, she is wearing a beautiful chiffon ball gown, in the symbolic color of black.) Jim is at first outraged, but he loves Ruby so much that he forgives her completely.Jim tragically dies in a boat accident, and the angry townspeople falsely accuse Ruby of murdering him for his money. The nonstop noise of car horns blaring is nerve-wracking. Ruby is frightened by the torment of the townspeople.Ruby is now a rich, powerful woman, wearing elegant black dresses, hats and sunglasses. She takes revenge by foreclosing on numerous local companies, leaving behind many ruined businesses.However, Ruby still obsessively loves Boake, and offers to cancel his loan. Boake scorns Ruby, and she retaliates by flooding his farm with swamp water. Boake sadly watches as his small crops die in the flooded land. Ruby has coldly destroyed his dream.There is a creepy scene which strongly implies that Boake essentially rapes Ruby. Boake is angry, dangerous and anguished over his destroyed farm.The last part of the film takes place in the hellish swamp, where Ruby and Boake are chased by a madman through the muddy water. They eventually reconcile in a bittersweet scene.The ending is sad and moody. Ruby regrets her vindictive actions and seeks atonement. She becomes the captain of a small fishing boat, and lives as a recluse. Ruby looks like a thin man, wearing a man's uniform. She has lost her alluring glamor. The most beautiful woman in town is now an androgynous recluse.The sets and costumes are lavish. Jim Gentry's mansion contrasts with the wooden cabins in the swamp area. The swamp is eerie, filled with mist, twisted dark branches, and muddy water. The acting is excellent. Jennifer Jones looks beautiful in all of her outfits, including jeans, a white satin gown, a black chiffon ball gown, and a black dress with a black hat.This movie has interesting themes of obsessive love, ambition, a strange love-hate relationship, social class prejudice, revenge, women and power. I highly recommend this film.

Syl This film has Oscar winners, Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, and Karl Malden in an unusual love triangle. Jennifer Jones plays Ruby, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who can play with the men. She's in love with Heston's character but he can't marry her because of the scandal. But it doesn't mean that he doesn't lust after her. As a girl, she went to Mr. Gentry's home for a couple of years. Years later, Gentry (played by Karl Malden) invites her to help care for his sick wife played by Josephine Hutchinson. When she dies, he offers a proposal of marriage to Ruby. In the small town of Braddock, North Carolina, Ruby's marriage to beloved Gentry doesn't sit too well with the country club. Anyway, Heston's character is still pining for Ruby. I have to say that I liked Jennifer Jones in this role as Ruby Gentry. She allowed her to develop into a complex character than just a cardboard cut-up of the studio system.

moonspinner55 The turbulent life of a female sea captain is revealed. Jennifer Jones does quite well in the meaty leading role of Ruby, a swamp girl from the Carolinas who infiltrates an indifferent high society after marrying wealthy businessman Karl Malden. However, that marriage was just a convenience for this hellcat, who has pined her whole life for intrigued childhood hunting pal Charlton Heston, himself a recent newlywed to a girl who hails from the right side of the tracks. Silvia Richards' screenplay, which originated from a story by Arthur Fitz-Richard, is alarmingly direct, cutting right to the action despite a few well-placed flashbacks. Still, the narrative is somewhat confused (who's telling this story? If it's supposed to be Bernard Phillips' smitten doctor, he isn't around a whole lot). Jones sidesteps camp (just barely) with some enjoyably wild behavior in the film's second-half, and yet this portion of the movie doesn't quite fit comfortably alongside the rest--it plays almost like an unrelated episode. Director and co-producer King Vidor's strongest work comes in the earliest sequences, which have a well-wrought sense of character and pacing which the finale tends to lack. **1/2 from ****

theowinthrop Jennifer Jones had different types of roles in the films her husband David O. Selznick made. She's a dutiful daughter in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. She is a simple, holy young woman - destined for religious greatness, in SONG OF BERNADETTE. She is one of a pair of twisted, oversexed, mutually doomed lovers in DUEL IN THE SUN. She is a doomed nurse who dies in World War I in A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Even in a film she was loaned for - BEAT THE DEVIL - she is a chronic liar and fantasist. Her title role as "Ruby Gentry" resembles her "Pearl Chavez" in that she is from a despised background (Ruby is from the "hillbilly" woods country, and Pearl is half Indian), but Ruby eventually does make it materially...but at a cost.Let's face it - RUBY GENTRY is an example of a soap opera turned into a motion picture. In fact, after watching it one wonders why Selznick chose to make this film. DUEL IN THE SUN was a western, SONG OF BERNADETTE a historical film, PORTRAIT OF JENNIE a popular novel of the day. GENTRY was a novel too, but it's plot was not as mystical and weird as PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (wherein Joseph Cotton fell in love with the portrait of a young woman, whom he gradually learned died years earlier - and whom he experiences the love and loss of by meeting her ghost). GENTRY is set in the south, and is told by an outsider (a northern doctor who just moved to the Carolina coastal town - he's also having problems getting accepted*).(*The doctor's first name is rather Jewish sounding, which may be another reason he is having problems of acceptance in the town.)The story follows how Jones fascinates most of the men she meets: she has an affair with Charleton Heston, she has been under the protection of Karl Malden and his wife, and the doctor realizes what a remarkably talented woman she is too. But she is not socially fit to marry Heston (whose business ideas require a wealthy wife at least). When Malden's wife dies she accepts his subsequent marriage proposal. But while the social swells don't knock Malden (accepted as one of them and a decent guy) they won't accept her. The marriage suffers and subsequently Malden dies in an accident. Now wealthy Jones still finds that her wealth does not buy acceptance. And her point of view begins to sour towards the "upper crust" who prove more frail facing her than they imagine.The film works. Not only do the three leads do well (watch Malden's jealousy scene at the country club, or the scene of Heston and Jones driving a convertible at night alongside the ocean on the beach - one wonders if the scene influenced the scene of Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine in TERMS OF ENDEARMENT). Also noticeable are the actors playing the doctor (Barney Phillips) and Jones' brother (James Anderson), a religious maniac who may have certain incestuous ideas about her himself. If it is a soap opera it is a superior one, with firm acting, good directing by King Vidor (who had done the directing in DUEL IN THE SUNS), and even a memorable musical theme ("Ruby"). Jones is excellent, even if the role would have been more typical for Susan Hayward in that period.