It's a Big Country
It's a Big Country
Release: 1951-11-20
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 5.3
Comedy
Drama
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern. Stories are framed by the lecture of a university professor. In one tale a Boston resident becomes angry when the census forgets to record her presence. Another sketch chronicles the achievements of African Americans while still another pays tongue-in-cheek tribute to Texas.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Don Gordon
as Mervin (uncredited)
S.Z. Sakall
as Stefan Szabo
Leon Ames
as Secret Service Man
Fred Santley
as Census Bureau Supervisor (uncredited)
Nancy Reagan
as Miss Coleman
Van Johnson
as Rev. Adam Burch
William Powell
as Professor
Keenan Wynn
as Michael Fisher
Elisabeth Risdon
as Diner on Train (uncredited)
Angela Clarke
as Mama Esposito
Keefe Brasselle
as Sgt. Maxie Klein
Gary Cooper
as Texas
Janet Leigh
as Rosa Szabo Xenophon
Fredric March
as Joe Esposito
George Murphy
as Mr. Patrick Callaghan
Louis Calhern
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ethel Barrymore
as Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
Gene Kelly
as Icarus Xenophon
Marjorie Main
as Mrs. Wrenley
Lewis Stone
as Church Sexton
James Whitmore
as Mr. Stacey
Sharon McManus
as Sam Szabo
John Ericson
as Naval Ensign (uncredited)
