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Duel in the Sun
Directed by
King Vidor
Passed
1946
2h 24m
Western
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6.7
79%
55%
6.4
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Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
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Cast of Duel in the Sun
Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez
Joseph Cotten
Jesse McCanles
Gregory Peck
Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
Lionel Barrymore
Sen. Jackson McCanles
Herbert Marshall
Scott Chavez
Lillian Gish
Laura Belle McCanles
Walter Huston
The Sinkiller
Charles Bickford
Sam Pierce
Harry Carey
Lem Smoot
Joan Tetzel
Helen Langford
Tilly Losch
Mrs. Chavez
Butterfly McQueen
Vashti
Scott McKay
Sid
Otto Kruger
Mr. Langford
Sidney Blackmer
The Lover
Charles Dingle
Sheriff Hardy
Griff Barnett
Bordertown Jailer (uncredited)
Hank Bell
McCanles' Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Audrey Betz
Party Guest (uncredited)
Duel in the Sun Ratings & Reviews
InSession Film
Zita Short
The delirious, extravagant final scene elevates Duel in the Sun into the stratosphere of the greats.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Martin Scorsese saw this at the age of 4, and it's easy to see how it influenced his own career, what with its oversized emotions, sweeping camerawork, and ingrained violence.
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
Virginia Wright
Any way you look at it, Duel in the Sun is a fabulous enterprise.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
There's no doubt that it goes too far in almost every direction-but that touch of obsession is exactly what saves
Examiner.com
Phil Hall
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.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A grand scale horse opera.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
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.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Oh, brother-if only the dramatics were up to the technical style!
Los Angeles Alternative
Jay Antani
Lurid, stupid fun
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
It's big, it's sprawling, it's overheated, it's colorful, but it's not very good.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Bob Bloom
One big, overblown stinker. A pretentious B-Western not worthy of its all-star cast.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
Duel in the Sun (1946) was branded "Lust in the Dust" at the time of its release. This classic epic western was produced by David O. Selznick (who failed in his desire to make it the Western equivalent of his earlier Civil War epic Gone with the Wind).
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