Since “Raintree County” appeared in 1948, no one has known what to make of Ross Lockridge Jr.’s massive and provocative first novel. Readers made it into an instant best seller. Hollywood made it into ...

Raintree County, one of the biggest and costliest (estimated at $5 million) productions from Metro since its release of David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind, was lensed via the Camera 65 process (65 ...

The videotape of the film resides in my collection of Willard classic films. I must issue a disclaimer. Not all the films I enjoyed throughout the years were viewed as classics by the critics of that ...

RAINTREE COUNTY (1,066 pp.) — Ross LockridgeJr. — Houghton Mifflin ($3.95). This first book is the impressive result of a bold, if not wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Trainer Joe Bollero receives Beaumont Stakes Cup from Elizabeth Taylor, Earlie Fires, Jr. George Hamilton and unidentified person at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, KY, in 1986. Taylor died March ...

Raintree County is just another movie, only longer. Not even a Boston premiere featuring a slinky starlet and a brass band can disguise the sad truth that this film is almost completely devoid of ...

Iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died Wednesday at age 79, gave Central Kentucky one of its biggest brushes with celebrity when she came to Danville for six weeks in August and September 1956 to ...