This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Fork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the locals to be a tyrant who uses force to keep homesteaders off the government owned land he uses for grazing his cattle--the so-called Sea of Grass. Lutie, has difficulty reconciling her husband's beliefs and passions with her own.

Starring:

Barbara Billingsley, Bernice Pilot, Bill Wolfe, Budd Fine, Buddy Roosevelt, Carol Nugent, Charles McAvoy, Charles Middleton, Charles Trowbridge, Chief Many Treaties, Dan White, Davison Clark, Dick Baron, Dick Rich, Dick Rush, Dorothy Vaughan, Douglas Fowley, Duncan Richardson, Earle Hodgins, Eddie Acuff, Eddy Waller, Edgar Buchanan, Erville Alderson, Fo

Genre:

Drama, Western