THE SEA OF GRASS no stars

As close to a complete disaster as any Tracy/Hepburn picture came as well as being Elia Kazan's least distinguished picture. It's a western of sorts with Tracy as the cattle baron who rules with a rod of iron and Hepburn as the wife who tries to stand up to him. It's well cast, (Melvyn Douglas, Robert Walker, Ruth Nelson and Harry Carey are also on hand), and superbly photographed in black and white by Harry Stradling but it never catches fire. The screenplay by Marguerite Roberts and Vincent Lawrence is leaden in the extreme and the film is just dull. Both Tracy and Hepburn are miscast and the film just drags on for over two hours and a few decades. Consequently it isn't much revived; a curio but not in a good way.