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1946

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Starring	Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore
Director	King Vidor
Genres	Action/Adventure

Duel In The Sun

Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), whose husband, Senator (Lionel Barrymore), is a Texas cattle baron of immense wealth. She soons finds herself attracted to the two McCanles sons: the magnetic hell-raiser Lewt (Gregory Peck) and the educated, restrained Jesse (Joseph Cotten). Since Pearl is presumed to have inherited her mother's hot-blooded disposition, she's tagged as a bad girl by Lewt, who quickly makes a pass at her without success. But with Jesse away on business, she and Lewt eventually become lovers, although she still can't decide which of the two she loves. Meanwhile, Senator is embroiled in a dispute over the invasion of his property by railroad interests, becoming enraged when Jesse chooses the pen over the shotgun as a neogotiating tool. Saturated in sexual innuendo, this fabulously overripe, overproduced melodrama, which constantly teeters on the edge of camp, is, more than anything else, the product of David O. Selznick's megalomaniacal desire to top his earlier epic, GONE WITH THE WIND. That said, the acting is very good, as is Dimitri Tiomkin's score, and the crowd scenes are superbly orchestrated.

Starring	Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Charles Bickford, Walter Huston, Ch
Director	King Vidor
Studio	FREMANTLE
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Wild Westerns
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1946 To Rent: DVD: 13 Oct 2008

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- Massive Western, dominated and fragmented by its producer, who bought the best talent and proceeded to interfere with it, so that while individual scenes are marvellous, the narrative has little flow. The final gory shoot-up between two lovers was much di
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  Not Gone with the Wind
  
  Selznick who produced this was sleeping with the leading lady (Ms Jones) and created this hot opus for her. He spent a fortune on the film and after two years ... read more »
  
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  beautiful. tragic love story. Nice to watch on a long winter evening.
  
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  This is one of the better westerns. It is well acted and keeps your interest throughout. However, in places I thought it was over-acted, and the ending is far... read more »
  
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  This is without doubt one of the most bizarre films I have seen for a long time. I found the plot, such as it was, quite hard to follow and the relationships ... read more »
  
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  Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), ...