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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860488
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860489
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Running Time: 129 minutes
Sales Rank: 14223
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1946
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From the acclaimed producer of Gone With the Wind comes a torrid tale of passion and romancethat's loaded with 'all the sweep and panache of a giant American action movie' (The New Yorker)! 'Flawlessly cast' (The Film Daily) with a bevy of film legends, including Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish, this salacious saga is 'virtuallyimpossible not to love' (The Hollywood Reporter)! When her father is hanged for murdering his wife, the stunning beauty Pearl (Jones) is taken in by a wealthy Texan, his wife and their two grown sons (Peck and Cotten). But Pearl soon becomes trapped in an emotional tug-of-war between her love for one son and her lust for the other, igniting the most tempestuous triangle the West has ever seen!
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Legendary producer David O. Selznick dreamed of another magnum opus like his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind; he also purposed to make Jennifer Jones, his ladylove and eventually second Mrs. Selznick, a megastar. Accordingly, he micromanaged the making of Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust to some), an extravagant Technicolor epic about the collision of the old West with the new, wide-open spaces with railroads and barbed wire, and hot-blooded outlaws with civilized folk, often wimpy or unwell. Beginning among giant rocks drenched in a blood-red sunset, with velvet-voiced Orson Welles intoning the leibestod legend of doomed Pearl Chavez and her demon lover, Duel never strays far from lush romanticism, spiced with a dash of S/M. Orphaned Pearl (Jones) comes to live at Spanish Bit Ranch, where frail Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish) tries to make a lady of her, despite her questionable origins and insistent voluptuousness. Sexual license versus law--Pearl's choices--are symbolized by the McCanles brothers: dark, undisciplined Lewt (a lubriciously wicked Gregory Peck) and reasonable, forward-looking, repressed Jesse (Joseph Cotten). The cast is huge (Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen) and there are unforgettable set pieces: summoned by a cacophony of bells, the gathering of McCanles cowboys from the four corners of the earth; Pearl in heat, clutching Lewt's leg and being dragged across the floor as he makes his getaway to Mexico; and the lovers' final shootout among those red rocks, as orgiastic a finale as you could ask for. --Kathleen Murphy
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Rating:  - Gregory Peck as a bag guy, oh my!
This has always been one of my favorites westerns, although I never went to the trouble of getting a DVD version, until it came up on my Amazon recommendation list. I ordered it right away, and received the usual good Amazon service, and quick, free shipping, and have not been disappointed. Gregory Peck is one of best actors, and makes the movie, playing the bad guy this time, instead of his usual hero role. I can personally recommend this movie, going against a number of the negative reviews that are posted here.
Rating: - A "Bad Movie We Love" Must-See!!!!
We who love Bad Movies positively worship David Selznick's overproduced, overwritten, overwrought DUEL IN THE SUN. This film was Selznick's futile effort to make a sex symbol our of his Oscar-winning girlfriend Jennifer Jones by casting her as a wanton half-breed Injun gal who makes men's blood turn to, well, firewater. You've got to wonder about the private life of any famed movie producer who writes a script expressly for his young actress protegee that includes self-appraisals such as: "I'm trash, I tell ya, trash!" and "I know what ya think, that I'm trashy like my ma!" and, best of all, "Trash, trash, trash, trash, TRASH!"
This two-hour-plus saga of what happens when half-caste Jones is brought to live within the walls of the McCanles homestead -- wild son Gregory Peck goes insane, nice son Joseph Cotten leaves home, decent mama Lillian Gish expires from all the excitement, and sinister father Lionel Barrymore cracks such one-liners as "Is that what they're wearing in wigwams these days?" -- lends itself irresistibly to the interpretation that this is a Hollywood insider's look at the effect Jones actually had on the married Selznick home life when their romance began. How else to explain away the self-indulgence of Barrymore begging for Gish's forgiveness as she is dying? "It don't seem possible but I musta been wrong about a whole lotta things," weeps Barrymore -- a thought that apparently never occured to Selznick when writing this script.
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Rating:  - Turgid Is The Word.....
My quick opinion: 3 stars because I'm sentimental about the great stars in it. The fatal flaw, picked up on decades ago--and correctly--is that the emotions are overwrought, the characters underdeveloped, and the attempts to create genuine emotional tension, and involvement on the part of the viewer, too calculated and artificial to be "real". Rightfully assessed as a failed attempt to reproduce the oomph of "Gone With The Wind". It's basically a turgid, forced melodrama, despite the best scene-chewing efforts of the admittedly sexy Jennifer Jones and a very against-type Gregory Peck. A legendary film, but not a great one. "Lust In The Dust" indeed.
Rating: - A love with two faces!
"Duel in the sun" is the "Gone with the wind" of the Western genre. The movie begins with a warning, a cactus flower that epitomizes and warns us about the tragic love of Perla Chavez , a free and gentle flower who grew wild, a half bred girl who was born signed by the disgrace. She is witness of her mother' s death by the hands of her own father, who sends her to his second cousin Laura Belle, happily married with a wealthy Senator and mother of two sons; Jesse, the good guy and prominent lawyer (Joseph Cotten) and Lewton , the bad seed of the family (Gregory Peck). Both of them will be engaged by this sensual woman at the same moment she arrives to the "Little Spain" ranch.
The plot suggests us much more that it shows, the febrile passion she feels for one is compensated by the candid love she feels for the other one, but she knows about her origin and nothing in this world will be capable to redeem her.
King Vidor was the director of this mature sex western that still stands out as one the most superb westerns ever made. As a matter of fact it has everything you demands about a western, legal clashes between the arrival of the railroad in these lands, a sublime photography, unforgettable scenes supported by the depth of field that remits us to John Ford's style but with a particular taste, fabulous performances of all the cast, not only the presence of Lyonel Barrymore justifies plainly your inversion, but the smart idea to hire the veteran Walter Huston in the role of preacher ... Read More
Rating: - A highly original piece of work that remains impressive, baroque folly, not least for the final scene...
King Vidor was a long-serving and much-respected Hollywood grandmaster who took a serious interest in movie-making... "Billy the Kid" and "Duel in the Sun" hold an important place in the history of the genre... These two films in particular, along with "Northwest Passage," show Vidor's romantic vision of backwoods America and his love of natural landscape; they share, too, an earthy quality which is missing from his more routine action Westerns, "The Texas Rangers" and "Man Without a Star."
Photographed in rich color, the visual magnificence of the film was manifested in the shots of the cowboys galloping across the rolling hills; in the spectacular confrontation between the McCanles forces who aimed to defend Spanish Bit with lead and the U.S. Cavalry; in the deep red sunset sequence with Lionel Barymore as "the lonely Senator"; and in that long shot of the surreptitious meeting between Lewt and his father on the hilltop at sunset...
"Duel in the Sun" is extravagantly and grandiosely passionate and romantic and its characters are much larger than life... A poignant scene was the tremendous moment between two legendary actors (Lionel Barrymore & Lillian Gish) when Laura Belle said to her husband "I'm a nuisance to you even to the end. It's the first time you've been in this room since that night./I loved you, Laura Belle. Yes, sir, I loved you."
Now, when a single movie offers murder, rape, attempted fratricide, train wreck, fiery sensual dance, drunkenness, religion, ... Read More
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