Duel in the Sun (film)
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| Directed by | King Vidor |
| Produced by | David O. Selznick |
| Written by | Oliver H.P. Garrett David O. Selznick Ben Hecht |
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Duel in the Sun 1944 novel by Niven Busch |
| Starring |
Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Gregory Peck |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography |
Lee Garmes Ray Rennahan Harold Rosson |
| Edited by | John D. Faure Charles L. Freeman Hal Kern William H. Ziegler |
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| Distributed by | Selznick Releasing Organization |
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145 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6,480,000 |
| Box office | $20,408,163 |
Duel in the Sun is a 1946 Technicolor epic Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza (half-Native American) girl who goes to live with her Caucasian relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. The movie stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore.
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) is orphaned after her father Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) kills her mother (Tilly Losch), having caught her with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Before Scott Chavez is executed as a punishment for killing his wife, he arranges for his daughter Pearl to live with his second cousin and old sweetheart, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish).
Arriving by stagecoach, Pearl is met by Jesse McCanles (Joseph Cotten), one of Laura Belle's two grown sons. He takes her to Spanish Bit, their enormous cattle ranch. The gentle and gracious Laura Belle is happy to welcome her to their home, but not so her husband, the wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), who calls her "a half-breed" and jealously despises Pearl's father.
The second son, Lewt (Gregory Peck), is a ladies man with a personality quite unlike that of his gentlemanly brother Jesse. He expresses his interest in Pearl in direct terms and she takes a strong dislike to him. Laura Belle calls in Mr. Jubal Crabbe, the "Sinkiller" (Walter Huston), a gun-toting preacher, to counsel Pearl on how to avoid the evils of temptation. Pearl is determined to remain "a good girl."
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