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Duel in the Sun

Name: Duel in the Sun
Director: King Vidor
Genre: Western, Drama, Romance
Released: 1946
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

1946 · Directed by King Vidor · 144 min · Western · Drama · Romance · 10 frames

Tagline

Emotions . . . As Violent As The Wind-Swept Prairie !

Crew

Screenplay: David O. Selznick
Written by: Ben Hecht
Cinematography: Harold Rosson, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Production design: J. McMillan Johnson
Produced by: David O. Selznick

Cast

Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez
Joseph Cotten as Jesse McCanles
Gregory Peck as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
Lionel Barrymore as Sen. Jackson McCanles
Herbert Marshall as Scott Chavez
Lillian Gish as Laura Belle McCanles
Walter Huston as The Sinkiller
Charles Bickford as Sam Pierce
Harry Carey as Lem Smoot
Joan Tetzel as Helen Langford

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: The Selznick Studio, Vanguard Films
Budget: $6,000,000
Box office: $20,400,000
Themes: rape, sexual obsession, death of father, woman between two men, brother against brother, skinny dipping, family, overbearing father, opposites, biracial

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