The Sea of Grass

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The Sea of Grass is a 1947 American Western drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, adapted from Conrad Richter’s novel about a rancher’s battle over open range land in the American Southwest.

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The Sea of Grass canonical 4
The Sea of Grass (novel) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Western film
drama film
film
adaptationOf novel by Conrad Richter
authorOfSourceWork Conrad Richter
basedOn The Sea of Grass self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Sea of Grass (novel)
centralConflict battle over open range land
cinematography Harry Stradling Sr.
colorProcess black-and-white
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Elia Kazan
distributedInFormat theatrical film
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editor George Boemler
filmGenreCombination American Western drama film
genre Western
drama
mainCharacterOccupation rancher
musicBy Herbert Stothart
notableCastPairing Tracy and Hepburn
surface form: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
originalLanguage English
producer Pandro S. Berman NERFINISHED
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
releaseDate 1947-04-25
releaseYear 1947
runtimeMinutes 123
screenwriter Marguerite Roberts
settingLocation southwestern United States
surface form: American Southwest
settingPeriod late 19th century
starring Katharine Hepburn
Melvyn Douglas
Phyllis Thaxter
Robert Walker
Spencer Tracy

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Elias Kazantzoglou directed The Sea of Grass
subject surface form: Elia Kazan
Edgar Buchanan notableWork The Sea of Grass
Phyllis Thaxter notableWork The Sea of Grass
The Sea of Grass basedOn The Sea of Grass self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The Sea of Grass (novel)
Ruth Nelson notableWork The Sea of Grass