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Duel in the Sun (1946)

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 14
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Release Date: Dec 31, 1946 Wide

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Movie Info

In David O. Selznick's florid, overheated melodrama Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones stars as half-Native American Pearl Chavez, who everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. Her father is Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall), an ill-fated fellow who kills his wife and her lover (Sidney Blackmer) and gets hung for it. Pearl is taken into the home of the greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been Scott's sweetheart.

Unrated, 2 hr. 10 min.

Western, Drama, Classics

Directed By: King Vidor

Written By: Niven Busch, Oliver H.P. Garrett, David O. Selznick

In Theaters: Dec 31, 1946 Wide

On DVD: Jan 19, 1999

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Cast

Griff Barnett
The Jailer
Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez
Gregory Peck
Lewt McCanles
Charles Bickford
Sam Pierce
Joseph Cotten
Jesse McCanles
Sidney Blackmer
The Lover
Lionel Barrymore
Senator McCanles
Harry Carey
Lem Smoot
Lillian Gish
Laura Belle McCanles
Walter Huston
Preacher
Herbert Marshall
Scott Chavez
Lane Chandler
Captain US Cavalry
Frank Cordell
Frank
Thomas P. Dillon
Engineer
Charles Dingle
Sheriff Hardy
Steve Dunhill
Jake
Otto Kruger
Mr. Langford
Tilly Losch
Mrs. Chavez
Francis McDonald
Gambler
Scott McKay
Sid
Bob McKenzie
Bartender
Butterfly McQueen
Vashti
Elizabeth Lloyd Shaw
Barbecue Caller
Joan Tetzel
Helen Langford
Dan White
Ed
Johnny Bond
Hand at Barbeque
Si Jenks
Victor Kilian
Gambler
Lee Phelps
Engineer
Bert Roach
Eater
Al Taylor
Man at Barbecue
Guy Wilkerson
Barfly
Hank Worden
Cowhand
Orson Welles
Narrator
Rose Plummer
Dancer
Harry Carey Sr.

Critic Reviews for Duel in the Sun

All Critics (20) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (2) | DVD (8)

A grand scale horse opera.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

March 31, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

Lurid, stupid fun

January 5, 2005 Comment

Jay Antani

Los Angeles Alternative Source: Los Angeles Alternative

O romance entre os personagens de Jones e Peck � fascinante, j� que ambos possuem car�ter d�bio - e o desfecho � fabuloso.

July 25, 2003 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

It's big, it's sprawling, it's overheated, it's colorful, but it's not very good.

January 22, 2003 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

One big, overblown stinker. A pretentious B-Western not worthy of its all-star cast.

December 19, 2002 Comment

Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Duel in the Sun (1946) was branded "Lust in the Dust" at the time of its release, a classic epic western

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

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Tim Dirks

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A Western soap opera played as if it were Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandments, with every iota of the accompanying self-importance and then some, but with only the barest bones of a plot and script. Unintentionally laugh worthy and yet hard not to watch, like a over emotional drunk acquaintance crying over a breakup.

March 14, 2012

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I should have liked this a bit more than I did. After all, it does have Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck in it (two of my favorites), but I don't. I can't say the I enjoy seeing a weak woman being weak, and especially not gaining any strength. She almost seems like she's going to be strong toward the end, but cops

February 17, 2011

Tim Salmons

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