1952 - RUBY GENTRY - over heated southern drama is really overheated

King Vidor and Jennifer Jones reteam for another nutty sex epic along the lines of Duel in the Sun.

Jennifer Jones is oversexed Ruby Gentry with an "itch down there."  Jones spends the first part of the film stroking shot gun barrels and running around in tight jeans and push up bras.  Jones has the hots for Charleton Heston who talks about "big pumps" and generally turns into a horn dog when ever he is around Ruby.  Heston won't marry Ruby because she is from "the wrong side of the tracks."

Jones marries Karl Malden the richest man in town and takes her revenge on Heston for two timing her.  It all ends in another shootout with some striking similarities to the climax of Duel in the Sun.

This piece of southern melodrama cheesecake is well directed by King Vidor who at this point in his career is a long way from The Crowd or Our Daily Bread.

82 minutes, written by Arthur Fitz-Richard and Silvia Richards.