This Earth Is Mine

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.

Date of release
1959-07-08
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
2h 4m
Genres
Drama
Director
Henry King

Casting

Interesting facts

This Earth Is Mine is a 1959 American drama film directed by Henry King and starring Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons. The film portrays the lives and loves of the Rambeau family, a California winemaking dynasty trying to survive during Prohibition in the United States.

Production

The screenplay for the film, based on the novel The Cup and the Sword by American novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart, was written by Casey Robinson, best known for writing most of Bette Davis' best films. Director Henry King had been successfully directing Hollywood films since the 1920s — this film was one of his last.

The production company was Vintage Productions, in partnership with Universal–International Pictures. The film was Universal's biggest budgeted production at the time with a budget of $3 to $3.5 million.

Casey Robinson wanted to work with director Henry King, who had been under contract at Fox since the 1930s. It was the first film King made outside the studio since he signed with Fox. King called it "rather a pleasant assignment, one of the nicest I have ever had... We started with the picture and had it cut, edited, and ready to show at a press showing in less than six months from the time we started. It just worked out beautifully."

Production dates for the film were September 2, 1958 through early November, 1958. The production was filmed in Technicolor, with monoaural sound. Napa Valley locations used for filming were:

Draper Vineyard, now called La Perla and part of Spring Mountain Vineyard

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