Duel in the Sun (Blu-ray)
Emotions . . . As Violent As The Wind-Swept Prairie !
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 15, 2017
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck & Joseph Cotten | |
Performer: | Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Herbert Marshall, Joan Tetzel, Otto Kruger, Sidney Blackmer & Tilly Losch | |
Directed by | King Vidor | |
Edited by | John Faure, Charles Freeman, Hal C. Kern & William H. Ziegler | |
Screenwriting by | Oliver H.P. Garrett & David O. Selznick | |
Original story by | Niven Busch | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Art Direction by | James Basevi | |
Produced by | David O. Selznick | |
Director of Photography: | Lee Garmes, Harold Rosson & Ray Rennahan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
It's big, it's sprawling, it's overheated, it's colorful, but it's not very good.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It has rare power and a great supporting cast.
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Time Out
Oh, brother-if only the dramatics were up to the technical style!
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New York Times
Rating: B- --
Many directors worked on this Western and it's impossible to tell whose signature it bears; the final, overheated shootout between the lovers (Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones), is preposterous but worth the ticket price.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/5 --
Lurid, stupid fun
Los Angeles Alternative
King Vidor's direction keeps the playing in step with production aims. He pitches the action to heights in the top moments and generally holds the overall mood desired.
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Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
It doesn't help that Jennifer Jones' accent and the skin tone of her native make-up fluctuate from scene to scene - she is strictly a force of camp that smacks every awful stereotype with a vengeance.
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Examiner.com
Product Description:
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 half-breed. 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 negotiating 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.