The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass

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1947123 min6.1 / 10

A frontier melodrama centered on a doomed marriage between incompatible partners, exploring themes of infidelity, abandonment, and the clash between civilization and the untamed West.

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

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