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With spacious skies, amber fields and alabaster cities gleaming, with E Pluribus Unum and red, white and bally-hoo, It's a Big Country celebrates the USA with a star-studded array of eight slice-of-life vignettes. Among highlights: a train passenger (William Powell) sets another traveler (James Whitmore) straight about how America defies simple description; an elderly widow (Ethel Barrymore) seeks to be counted in the census; a documentary montage lauds African-Americans; a saddled-up lone star (Gary Cooper) drolly extols the Lone Star State; and Icarus Xenophon (Gene Kelly) finds love (with Janet Leigh) and wrath from her Greek-loathing father (S. Z. Sakall). The stars shine brightly over this big, grand, heart-tugging country.
Original Release
11/20/1951
US Release
11/20/1951
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ethel Barrymore | Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan |
Keefe Brasselle | Sgt. Maxie Klein |
Gary Cooper | Texas |
Nancy Reagan | Miss Coleman |
Van Johnson | Rev. Adam Burch |
Gene Kelly | Icarus Xenophon |
Janet Leigh | Rosa Szabo / Rosa Szabo Xenophon |
Marjorie Main | Mrs. Wrenley |
Fredric March | Joe Esposito |
George Murphy | Mr. Callaghan / Mr. Patrick Callaghan |
Directors
Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, William A. Wellman
Writers
William Ludwig, Edgar Brooke, Helen Deutsch, Ray Chordes, Isobel Lennart, Claudia Cranston, Allen Rivkin, Lucille Schlossberg, Dorothy Kingsley, Dore Schary, George Wells, Joseph Petracca, Charles Palmer
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ethel Barrymore | Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan |
Keefe Brasselle | Sgt. Maxie Klein |
Gary Cooper | Texas |
Nancy Reagan | Miss Coleman |
Van Johnson | Rev. Adam Burch |
Gene Kelly | Icarus Xenophon |
Janet Leigh | Rosa Szabo / Rosa Szabo Xenophon |
Marjorie Main | Mrs. Wrenley |
Fredric March | Joe Esposito |
George Murphy | Mr. Callaghan / Mr. Patrick Callaghan |
William Powell | Professor |
S.Z. Sakall | Stefan Szabo |
Lewis Stone | Church Sexton |
James Whitmore | Mr. Stacey |
Keenan Wynn | Michael Fisher |
Leon Ames | Secret Service Man |
Angela Clarke | Mama Esposito |
Robert Hyatt | Joey Esposito / Joseph Esposito |
Sharon McManus | Sam Szabo |
David Alpert | Greek Athlete |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dore Schary | Producer |
Robert Sisk | Producer |