With an all-star cast headed by Gregory Peck Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten Duel In The Sun is a western a love story and a family saga rolled into one and features some of the most breathtaking photography ever seen. When a vivacious half-breed Indian girl named Pearl (Jones) is sent to live with the Texas land baron Senator McCanles conflict abruptly arises. Hot-blooded Pearl captures the attention of the Senator's sons: Jesse (Cotten) and fiery Lewt (Peck). Soon both of the brothers are vying for her attention which leads to betrayal wild desert shoot-outs and a lusty love-hate relationship between Pearl and Lewt.
Before creating Duel in the Sun, legendary producer David O Selznick dreamed of making another magnum opus like his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind; he also proposed to make Jennifer Jones, his ladylove then second wife, a megastar. Thus Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust to some) was created as an extravagant Technicolor epic about the collision of the old West with the new, offering wide-open spaces with railroads and barbed wire, and juxtaposing character traits such as hot-blooded outlaws alongside civilised folk who are often wimpy or unwell. The film begins among giant rocks drenched in a blood-red sunset, with velvet-voiced Orson Welles intoning the legend of doomed Pearl Chavez and her demon lover; Duel in the Sun never strays far from lush romanticism, spiced with a dash of S/M. The cast is huge (a lubriciously wicked Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Joseph Cotton, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen) and there are unforgettable set pieces, the most notable being the lovers' final shootout among those red rocks, as orgiastic a finale as you could ask for. --Kathleen Murphy, Amazon.com
One of the first big-budget Westerns based on a Zane Grey novel. Cooper convinces a fellow traveller on a west-bound caravan to pose as his wife to help disguise him then saves the caravan from an Indian attack. And falls in love of course.
Fighting Caravans: One of the first big-budget Westerns based on a Zane Grey novel. Cooper convinces a fellow traveller on a west-bound caravan to pose as his wife to help disguise him then saves the caravan from an Indian attack. And falls in love of course. Randy Rides Alone: The territory has been invaded by a gang of renegades threatening the town and its people. Wyne shows up takes control and single-handedly rides them out of town. Man Of The Frontier:
Gary Cooper stars in this adaptation of Zane Grey's western as a young frontiersman who journeys across the country with his freight wagon. On the way he fights Indians and evil traders while his old companions try to keep him from falling in love!
This action-packed western set in the civil war follows the struggle of a caravan of freight wagons making its way west. Being led by a young frontier scout who helps fight against Indians and evil traders helps it along its way but when he meets and falls for a french maiden his two crusty companions try to get in the way of their romance.
This action-packed western set in the civil war follows the struggle of a caravan of freight wagons making its way west. Being led by a young frontier scout who helps fight against Indians and evil traders helps it along its way but when he meets and falls for a french maiden his two crusty companions try to get in the way of their romance. A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country fighting off Indians and evil traders while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love. Timeless classic western movie.
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