Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun

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When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, the biracial Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from demonizing, unruly younger son Lewt. Almost at once, already existing family tensions are exacerbated by her presence and the way she is physically drawn to Lew... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Duel in the Sun:

Jennifer Jones
Joseph Cotten
Gregory Peck
Lionel Barrymore
Herbert Marshall
Lillian Gish

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When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, the biracial Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from demonizing, unruly younger son Lewt. Almost at once, already existing family tensions are exacerbated by her presence and the way she is physically drawn to Lewt.

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Variety - 9/10 by Variety StaffKing 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.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyMany 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.
Cinema em Cena - 8/10 by Pablo VillaçaO romance entre os personagens de Jones e Peck é fascinante, já que ambos possuem caráter dúbio - e o desfecho é fabuloso.
New York Times - 6/10 by Bosley CrowtherOh, brother-if only the dramatics were up to the technical style!
Examiner.com - 4/10 by Phil HallIt 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.
Chicago Reader - 4/10 by Dave KehrThere's no doubt that it goes too far in almost every direction-but that touch of obsession is exactly what saves
User Review - 10/10 by Kate PExceptional drama-western, with superb acting and an amazing ending, this classic film delivers.
User Review - 10/10 by Christian BYou've got to hand it to David O. Selznick. Not only did he somehow pull off massive epics with only a modicum of DeMille-style camp and improved novels that today amount to pulp fiction, he never lost sight of his source material's primal appeal amid the lavish special effects, swelling Max Steiner music, and unsubtle historical observations that could easily bury any other producer's literary adaptation. He deserves almost as much credit as King Vidor for Duel in the Sun, Selznick's flowery attempt at topping his own Gone With the Wind. For one, Vidor left the production shortly before its completion, after one of those famous clashes of Hollywood egos film historians love to dwell on these days. For two, Duel in the Sun's bold, intense Technicolor cinematography unquestionably evokes Gone With the Wind's lush, romantic color scheme. Selznick's director of photography Lee Garmes shot both films, Gone With the Wind using broad, side-lit splashes of red and green to evoke the static longing of romance novel covers, and Duel in the Sun with searing swaths of red and, importantly, yellow, the Old West as if imagined by Kirchner. There's a painterly intensity to Duel in the Sun, but even though Orson Welles' absurd narration never lets us forget that this narrative of a tempestuous romance between a half-breed named Pearl (Jennifer Jones) and her borderline-psychotic cousin (Gregory Peck) happened long ago, the emotions feel immediate, not buried under nostalgia. Maybe it's because, in his heart, Selznick was a screenwriter, and not just that, a storyteller. How much he actually contributed to the screenplay of Gone With the Wind is still unclear, but for Duel in the Sun he took the reins on the script, and it's hard not to see some sort of dialogue about female sexuality and liberation going on between Jones' passionate, yet melancholy and ultimately doomed temptress and the irrepressible Scarlett O' Hara. As much as Pearl seems to teeter on the edge of sanity, we never once lose our identification with her and her uncertain place in the racial/sexual/socio-political order of 1880s Texas, and that is due certainly to Selznick's superb characterization almost as much as Jennifer Jones' captivating take on Pearl as a self-aware virgin-whore archetype. This is where Vidor perfectly intersects with the film. In what is often called his "delirious phase," with films like The Fountainhead and Beyond the Forest, he gave full license to his actresses to delve into hidden, and often campy, sexual depths. And in Duel in the Sun he pushes Pearl beyond the virgin-whore archetype of Selznick's script into a territory where the terms "promiscuity" and "chastity" have no meaning, and where Pearl neither titillates us nor evokes our pity about being sexually exploited. His camera doesn't linger on her in a way necessarily suggestive of the male gaze. That function already goes to Gregory Peck in the film. Rather she is presented as being a part of the landscape, and we're left to wonder if her turmoil is that found in nature, the rhythms of which are beautifully inculcated in Vidor's musical sense of cutting. And thus we have an operatic ending that is all at once a murder, a suicide, an accident, and an act of Nature.
User Review - 10/10 by Rob NI love this movie!!! i love it. it is a great love movie!!! but it is also stupid that they both die in the end. for peet sake!!! they shoot each other!!!!! but it is a good movie!!! i want a clip from this movie!!!
User Review - 10/10 by jay nThis is the mother of all pot-boilers, Everything about is over the top... the plot, the acting, the characters, all so overdone and scenery chewing, it's impossible not to laugh at the overdone happenings played out before you. I love this movie -- it's my greatest guilty pleasure.

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