Bright Leaves

    Bright Leaves
    2004

    Synopsis

    Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.

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      Cast

      • Ross McElweeHimself - Narrator (voice)
      • Brian Baucom
      • Susan Bennett
      • Ed Bivens
      • R. Bullock
      • Jack Clayton
      • Mary Clayton
      • Marian Fitz-Simmons
      • Alan Gurganus
      • Steve Herman

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