Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9230 in VHS
• Released on: 1990-09-12
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Black & White, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 80 minutes

Customer Reviews

Unique subject; entertaining and very well acted.
In the olden days, there were white slaves as well as black. Rachel And The Stranger may be the only movie to explore that topic, though lightly.
The whole plot is based on antiquated mores, and all the more interesting for it. It starts out like The Courtship of Eddie's Father in the wild west. William Holden (Bridge on the River Kwai) is a widower trying to raise his young son, Gary Gray (The Next Voice You Hear), at a cabin in the wilderness. On the advice of the parson in a nearby town, he marrys a bond slave played by Loretta Young (The Bishop's Wife), buying her out of servitude. But the marriage is only for convenience, to make the living arrangements proper; he still treats the woman as a slave, requiring her to cook and keep the house and mother the boy, and sleep in the loft alone. But when an old family friend, Robert Mitchum (Night of the Hunter), passes through hunting, and shows an interest in the girl, jealously brings out the husband in Holden.
The script is engaging, the actors charming, as with such classics as Shane, Of Human Hearts, Friendly Persuasion, etc. This was probably Mitchum's first singing role. Loretta Young is beautiful as ever as the sympathetic slave, and Holden plays the widower with unresolved feelings just right to make the whole thing work.
Recommended if you like the above mentioned films, and may be of interest to history students as well. It's entertaining, well made and very well acted, and the aspect about the bond slave makes Rachel And The Stranger a truly unique film.

love it
This is one of my favorite movies. I really like loretta young. She plays a bond woman who is bought to help a man out with the work on the farm & to take care of his young son. He does marry her but only because it is the right thing to do. It is in name only. His first wife died. Then along comes Robert Mitchum. He treats Rachael like a woman & it opens her husbands eyes. He also starts to see her as his woman & the boy is starting to like her also because Jim likes her. They even fight over her.

Must see film!
This is an excellent film and I very highly recommend it.
"Rachel and the Stranger," hs a wonderful cast of the beautiful Loretta Young, also William Holden and Robert Mitchim. It's a very entetaining film, about a bond slave taken as a wife in the frontier days. It's vry good and an entertaining film. Loretta Young fans will especially like it.