The Big Sky
The Big Sky

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Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Big Sky:

Kirk Douglas
Dewey Martin
Elizabeth Threatt
Arthur Hunnicutt
Buddy Baer
Steven Geray

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Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.

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New York Times - 8/10 by A.H. WeilerA saga as long as the day and as big as all outdoors.
New Yorker - 8/10 by Richard BrodyHoward Hawks's loose-limbed 1952 Western ...
Chicago Reader - 6/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumThough this sublime 1952 black-and-white masterpiece by Howard Hawks is usually accorded a low place in the Hawks canon, it's a particular favorite of mine -- mysterious, beautiful, and even utopian.
User Review - 10/10 by PEM DThis was one of Hawks most loved films (please read Hawks on Hawks). It was unfortunately cut after it's opening in Chicago to accommodate requests from the theatre houses. Hawks felt that the 21 minutes that were removed harmed his work. Having just seen this film with all its' removed sections...I agree! :-)
User Review - 8/10 by Scott RPretty good for the day, a bit melodramatic, but still enjoyable. 1001 movies to see before you die.
User Review - 8/10 by Lauri LGreat production, music and lot of characters. Take on indians is this kind of "there are the good indians and bad indiands". I feel the characters would have been a bit more accessible and remain caricatures. Not brilliant but entertaining enough.
User Review - 8/10 by Devon BThe extended cut of this (or rather the original cut) is quite interesting. However, the quality of the print is so poor due to the fact a 16mm source of the extra footage had to be used. I found it too distracting especially since the film aims for great visuals. As for the film itself, it's an intriguing and often eclectic film that almost prefigures Werner Herzog's Aguirre The Wrath of God at times.
User Review - 8/10 by Art SI think I was ready for a boffo adventure story and this Howard Hawks picture, featuring a group of men traveling up the Missouri River to the Pacific Northwest to do some trading with the Blackfoot Indians, hit the spot. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin star as a couple of rough and ready young guys who join up with Uncle Zeb (Arthur Hunnicutt) and a band of French outdoorsmen for the long journey. Hawks is great at creating a sense of community and his combination of sets and location shooting make the drama feel almost real. There are a number of different exciting episodes along the way and of course a love interest in the form of a Blackfoot maid, brought along on the trip. The relationship between Douglas and Martin - and with the woman Teal Eye - doesn't always hold together properly. Viewers likely prefer the adventure story and perhaps Hawks did too.
User Review - 8/10 by Greg Whoward hawks directs this action westerner
User Review - 8/10 by Ally CThe Big Sky is a proper boys own adventure and that fact shouldn't be surprising when one knows it was directed by Howard Hawks. The fact that the 'boys' would more likely be Truffaut and Godard rather than the freckled boy scouts of America prove the cinematic drive behind the film is equal to the story it tells. But what a story. Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is only a shade mor epic in scope than this production that was filmed almost in its entirety by the banks of and in the Missouri river from St Louis to the north-west of the country. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play mountain men loners Jim Deakins and Boone Caudell who start a friendship that takes them to St Louis to find Boone's uncle Zeb. When they find him, Zeb is on the eve of a great journey into Indian territory with a crew of French traders headed by the charismatic Jourdonnais (Steven Geray) and add the two huntsmen to their crew. Over the next two hours, everything you could expect happens to the boat and its men, along with a burgeoning attraction for the ship's biggest asset, Teal Eye, a member of the Black Crow tribe who the traders are returning to her tribe. Her affections are of course fought most fiercely over by Deakins and Caudell and this is a typically Hawksian device which delivers a near unsolvable problem until brotherhood intervenes and makes things ok again. The best performance in the film is Arthur Hunnicutt as Zeb who plays the Walter Huston role of humorous sage nut all the players are on good form as the film veers from one scrape to the next. Not Hawks' best but one typical of the great director.

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