Bright Leaves
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.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... Read more
Starring Ross McElwee, Brian Baucom, Susan Bennett, Ed Bivens, R. Bullock, Jack Clayton, Mary Clayton, Marian Fitz-Simmons, Alan Gurganus, Steve Herman
It's a documentary and biography movie, and has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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Not found streaming from Singapore.
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