Search
What's Hot
Day-by-Day Fall Schedule
Celebs With Their Pets
Shows We Lost This Season
Idol Runner-Up Takes Pay Cut?

It's A Big Country

1951, Movie, NR, 88 mins

It's A Big Country: Review

starstarstarstar
IT'S A BIG COUNTRY is a big yawn. Its eight separate episodes, done by some of the best writers and directors in the MGM stable, with some of the best actors in front of the camera, prove too much and not enough at the same time. Openly made as a propaganda film, it begins with Powell lecturing Whitmore on America. Powell is a university professor and his lecture segues into the vignettes. In Boston, Barrymore is annoyed with the national census takers after being overlooked. Wynn and Murphy appear, after which there is a brief montage about the accomplishments of African Americans. Then Kelly plays a Greek who takes the hand of Leigh, despite objections from her Hungarian father, Sakall. Next, Brasselle delivers a letter from Korea to a gold-star mother played by Main. After that, Cooper delivers a semihumorous tribute to Texas. Van Johnson, in the seventh segment, is a minister who gets to meet the US President. Finally, March is an Italian-American who resists buying a set of glasses for his son, Hyatt. The stories are slim and unrelated so there is no sustained interest. The credits read like who's who in the movie business, but someone didn't know what was what, and the picture sank quickly. At 88 minutes--you can gather how short each segment is--the film gives no one enough time to stand out, so what goes by is a panoply rather than anything we can sink our teeth into. leave a comment
Are You Watching?
It's A Big Country
Loading ...
Advertisement

Our Partners

Advertisement

Related Websites

You might be also interested in the following websites:

Most Popular TV Shows

  1. American Idol
  2. NCIS
  3. Big Bang Theory
  4. Voice
  5. Person of Interest
more popular tv shows

Most Popular Celebrities

  1. Jessica Simpson
  2. Khloe Kardashian
  3. Kate Middleton
  4. Maria Menounos
  5. Kim Kardashian
more popular celebrities

Most Popular Movies

  1. Men In Black 3
  2. Avengers
  3. Battleship
  4. The Dictator
  5. Dark Shadows
more popular movies

Top Videos

  1. The Bachelorette
  2. Revenge
  3. Keeping Up With the Kardashian...
  4. The Bachelorette
  5. The Bachelorette
more top videos