The Big Country
The Big Country

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Retired, wealthy sea Captain James McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless land war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in que... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Big Country:

Gregory Peck
Jean Simmons
Carroll Baker
Charlton Heston
Burl Ives
Charles Bickford

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Retired, wealthy sea Captain James McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless land war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.

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Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Clayton DillardAlthough The Best Years of Our Lives remains Wyler’s most essential assessment of the American psyche, The Big Country is stunning for how it meshes the intimate strife of a particularly white American stripe of self-resentment with the epic vista of Technirama Technicolor.
Creative Loafing - 9/10 by Matt BrunsonAn excellent Western. Jerome Morris' score is one of the all-time greats, standing in the company of Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven theme and Ennio Morricone's Spaghetti Western contributions as the genre's best.
Orlando Sentinel - 8/10 by Crosby DayAlthough the story – based on Donald Hamilton’s novel, with Jessamyn West and Robert Wyler credited with the screen adaptation – is dwarfed by the scenic outpourings, The Big Country is nonetheless armed with a serviceable, adult western yarn.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzOverblown western meant to debunk the western myth.
The Observer (UK) - 8/10 by Philip FrenchWilliam Wyler’s sprawling Western about iron-willed ranchers squabbling over desirable land, The Big Country, is one of the prime wide-screen epics of the late ’50s, but today it’s remembered mostly for composer Jerome Moross’ magnificent Big Sky score.
The Seattle Times - 6/10 by John HartlFor all this film's mighty pretensions, it does not get far beneath the skin of its conventional Western situation and its stock Western characters. It skims across standard complications and ends on a platitude.
Video-Reviewmaster.com - 6/10 by Steve CrumWide open-spaced mega western, full of stars, color, and a great Jerome Moross score.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyBurl Ives won the Supporting Actor Oscar for playing a patriarch in William Wyler's sprawling, overlong Western, though the award also might have been given to him for similar part in Cat on Hot Tin Roof.
Chicago Reader - 3/10 by Dave KehrGodawful allegorical western from the height of the cold war (1958), with lanky Yankee Gregory Peck caught between two superpower ranchers who are fighting it out over water rights. Directed by William Wyler in that glassy, studied way of his that gives craftsmanship a bad name.
User Review - 10/10 by Stan DA great western with a spectacular cast. Inspirational, entertaining, action packed, a feast for the eyes. With Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charles Bickford, Charlton Heston, Chuck Conners, but the show was stolen by oscar winner Burl Ives. Bickford and Ives have a feud, and Peck tries to end it, while also choosing between Baker and Simmons. Thoughtful and deep script, with a great musical score.

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