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Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun (1946)

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Release Date: Dec 31, 1946 Wide

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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,

Western, Drama, Classics

Niven Busch, Oliver H.P. Garrett, David O. Selznick

Jan 19, 1999

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Critic Reviews for Duel in the Sun

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A grand scale horse opera.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Lurid, stupid fun

January 5, 2005
Jay Antani
Los Angeles Alternative Source: Los Angeles Alternative

O romance entre os personagens de Jones e Peck é fascinante, já que ambos possuem caráter dúbio - e o desfecho é fabuloso.

July 25, 2003
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
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

December 19, 2002
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
Tim Dirks
Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films

Duel in the Sun benefits from this forbidden passion, as we see Jones and Peck sweating a lot, screaming at each other, hitting each other, and just generally being cruel to one another.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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well, after making fun of this for years, i finally watched it and it was pretty damned entertaining. jennifer jones pulls some weird faces and tiomkin's score is too bombastic as usual, but it kept me interested throughout. i don't get the allegations of racism here. do people think no one ever used the word halfbreed? that ending is still pretty silly but easier to take in context
March 13, 2009
rubystevens
Stella Dallas

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David O. Selznick's misguided attempt to recreate the success of GWTW in a western setting. The film has pleasures to be sure but also some woefully terrible parts. On the plus side: the cinematography is gorgeous and some of the supporting performances are good, Lillian Gish and Charles Bickford come off best. However there are some fatal flaws: a meager story to pin two and a half hours of film on and an overly earnest tone are two big deficits but what really hurts the film the most is the complete miscasting of the two leads. Gregory Peck was a fine actor but he was also an icon of resolute decency, whereas other actors with that persona like Henry Fonda could occasionally play a villain convincingly Peck could not. His casting alone would not be so bad if it wasn't paired against the absurdity of Jennifer Jones as Pearl. While I'll admit to never being a fan of hers within a limited range she could be an okay actress when the role wasn't too demanding, for instance The Towering Inferno. Pearl Chavez is far outside that scope, the part isn't really that good to begin with, even an actress as skillful as Vivien Leigh would probably been hard pressed to make her real although Ava Gardner with her raw sensuality could have made her work, but Jones mistakes over emphasis with depth and Vidor's florid style of direction doesn't help her. Part of the blame probably rests with Selznick's famed smothering control and that fact he was determined to make Jones the greatest of all stars which resulted often in putting her in material for which she was not suited and away from her strengths as a performer. The film is entertaining in an often campy way but one viewing should be enough.
May 8, 2011
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jay nixon

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Foreign Titles

  • Duell in der Sonne (DE)
  • Duel in the Sun (1946) (UK)
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