Bright Leaf (1950) | |
| Director(s) | Michael Curtiz |
| Producer(s) | Henry Blanke |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Old South |
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Bright Leaf (1950) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Henry Blanke.
SYNOPSIS
Brant Royle and his family are driven from their Kingsmont, North Carolina home by a tobacco baron, Major James Singleton, who wishes to keep his daughter away from the unseemly Royle. Royle vows to return to Kingsmont to wrest from Singleton his magnificent home, "Bright Leaf," and the hand of his beautiful daughter. When Royle manages to create and make himself the head of a cigarette-making syndicate that puts Singleton out of business, he finds himself in a strong position to make good his vow.
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Major Singleton:
I'm afraid I don't believe in cigarettes, much less a machine for makin' them. It turns my stomach, sir, every time I have occasion to witness someone pokin' one of those vile concoctions into their face. I deal in cigars, sir. Nothing less.
Lawyer Calhoun: We all felt pretty bad about your... trouble.
Brant Royle: Yeah, I'll bet you cried hour after hour.
Major Singleton: I'm too old a horse to change my gait.
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Lawyer Calhoun: We all felt pretty bad about your... trouble.
Brant Royle: Yeah, I'll bet you cried hour after hour.
Major Singleton: I'm too old a horse to change my gait.
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Facts about
To add authenticity to the film, an authentic, turn of the century cigarette maker was purchased as a prop.
This was the last film in Lauren Bacall's seven year contract with Warner Brothers.
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This was the last film in Lauren Bacall's seven year contract with Warner Brothers.
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