It's a Big Country (MOD) "Footwear & Socks" One of the few mainstream

One of the few mainstream films of its era to have a largely African-American cast

two sexes and one woman who has come a long way

daughter of an embittered laborer who was crippled in a mill accident

who once played Charleston-dancing flappers

It's a Big Country (MOD) "Footwear & Socks" One of the few mainstreamWith spacious skies, amber fields and alabaster cities gleaming, with E Pluribus Unum and red, white and bally hoo, It's a Big Country celebrates the USA with a star studded array of eight slice of life vignettes. Among highlights: a train passenger (William Powell) sets another traveler (James Whitmore) straight about how America defies simple description; an elderly widow (Ethel Barrymore) seeks to be counted in the census; a documentary montage