Rachel and the Stranger
1948 · Movie · NR · 93 min · ★ 6.5 · 72% critics
On the early American frontier, a widowed farmer enters a practical marriage with an indentured servant to help run his home and care for his son. When a charming drifter arrives, jealousy and buried feelings begin to test the uneasy arrangement.
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Details
- Years
- 1948
- Release date
- 1948-09-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (35 votes)
About
You may enjoy this if you like old-fashioned frontier romance with a gentle domestic focus, a little humor, and a love triangle, especially if The Rainmaker or Will Penny appeal to you; Not for you if dated attitudes or a slow pace put you off.
Pros: strong performances; engaging romantic tension; warm frontier atmosphere | Cons: dated gender attitudes; predictable story beats; uneven tone
Themes
- bride
- woman between two men
- frontier western
- widowed farmer
- indentured servant
- passing stranger
- new bride
Cast & crew
Loretta Young
as Rachel
William Holden
as David “Big Davey" Harvey
Robert Mitchum
as Jim Fairways
Gary Gray
as Davey
Tom Tully
as Parson Jackson
Sara Haden
as Mrs. Jackson
Frank Ferguson
as Mr. Green
Walter Baldwin
as Gallus
Regina Wallace
as Mrs. Green
- FC
Frank Conlan
as Jabez (uncredited)
Directed by Norman Foster