In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Elizabeth Taylor
as Susanna Drake Shawnessy
Montgomery Clift
as John Wickliff Shawnessy
Eva Marie Saint
as Nell Gaither
Nigel Patrick
as Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles
Lee Marvin
as Orville 'Flash' Perkins
Rod Taylor
as Garwood B. Jones
Agnes Moorehead
as Ellen Shawnessy
Walter Abel
as T.D. Shawnessy
Jarma Lewis
as Barbara Drake
Tom Drake
as Bobby Drake
Rhys Williams
as Ezra Gray
Russell Collins
as Niles Foster
