- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release: 1951-11-20
- Director: Clarence Brown , Don Hartman , John Sturges (1910–1992) , Richard Thorpe , Charles Vidor , Don Weis
- Writers: Dore Schary , William Ludwig , Edgar Brooke
- Language: English | Hungarian | Italian
- Stars: Ethel Barrymore , Keefe Brasselle , Gary Cooper , Nancy Reagan
- Runtime: 89 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: It's a Big Country: An American Anthology , No Palco da Vida (Brazil) , Nueve vidas (Mexico) , It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (United States of America) , Un gran país (Spain) , It's a Big Country (United States of America)
- Plot: The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious tolerance to the dangers of self-centeredness and myopic reasoning. The parables represent a broad cross-section of the American experience: the elderly woman whose pride is injured when she's forgotten in the latest census; the novice minister more pleased with the sound of his own voice than with the needs of his congregation; the mother who confronts the illogic of racial intolerance when she meets the best friend of the son she lost to war; and the enigma that is Texas. Episode titles are: 1) Interruptions, Interruptions; 2) Census Taker; 3) Negro Story; 4) Rosika, the Rose; 5) Letter from Korea; 6) Lone Star; (7) Minister in Washington; 8) Four Eyes; a further episode, titled Load, directed by Anthony Mann, with 'Jean Hersholt' (q.v.) and 'Ann Harding' (q.v.), was filmed but deleted.
- IMDB:tt0043680
It’s a Big Country: An American Anthology Cast · · · ALL
Clarence Brown
Director
Don Hartman
Director
John Sturges
(1910–1992)
Director
Richard Thorpe
Director
Charles Vidor
Director
Don Weis
Director
Ethel Barrymore
Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan
Keefe Brasselle
Sgt. Maxie Klein
Gary Cooper
Texas
Nancy Reagan
Miss Coleman
Van Johnson
Rev. Adam Burch
Gene Kelly
(I)
(1912–1996)
Icarus Xenophon
Janet Leigh
Rosa Szabo Xenophon
Marjorie Main
Mrs. Wrenley
Fredric March
Joe Esposito
George Murphy
Mr. Patrick Callaghan
William Powell
(I)
(1892–1984)
Professor
S.Z. Sakall
Stefan Szabo
Lewis Stone
(I)
(1879–1953)
Church Sexton
James Whitmore
Mr. Stacey
Keenan Wynn
Michael Fisher
Elisabeth Risdon
Diner on Train (uncredited)
Sharon McManus
Sam Szabo
Angela Clarke
Mama Esposito
Robert Hyatt
Joseph Esposito
John Ericson
Naval Ensign (uncredited)
Louis Calhern
(1895–1956)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Leon Ames
Secret Service Man
Benny Burt
Soda Jerk (uncredited)
Don Gordon
Mervin (uncredited)
Fred Santley
Census Bureau Supervisor (uncredited)