Duel in the Sun

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... Full review

For those who prefer soap operas instead of horse operas, this western might be for you. If you prefer the normal action-packed western you'll still might enjoy this if you have the patience to go past the first hour. The second... Full review

David O. Selznick spent the rest of his life trying to top Gone With the Wind. What other mountains did he have to climb after making the most acclaimed motion picture ever? In addition he had another obsession, his second wife... Full review

In the trade, this film was derisively known as "Lust in the Dust" and the critics were lukewarm. The Catholic Film Office rated it "C" for "condemned," presumably due to its smoldering sexuality, and Protestant churches denounced it for Walter Huston's... Full review

A half-breed named Pearl (Jennifer Jones) is sent off to live with her second cousins after her parents are killed. She disrupts the household causing problems between two brothers--one named Lewt (Gregory Peck) who's bad and Jesse (Joseph Cotten) who's good.... Full review

The restored "Road Show" DVD of David O. Selznick's production of "Duel in the Sun" is a most impressive experience. What this restoration has done is to place the viewer back to 1946 at the premiere itself. Selznick's vision was huge,... Full review

I still get into the delirious romanticism of its Tiomkin music, the gloriously overplayed sex scenes and King Vidor's powerful imagery (abetted by a posse of fill-in directors whenever crazy producer David O. Selznick wanted to flex his authority).....Perhaps due to improved encoding and production methods, the picture looks better than ever, with colors perhaps a bit more stable.....The same track malady is present on MGM's visually beautiful Thief of Bagdad disc.....The dynamic music is badly effected as ... Full Review

Duel in the Sun is an interesting bit of film history Perhaps the most amazing thing about Duel in the Sun is seeing Peck as a sexual dynamo. Cotten, too, is better than what he gets. Jones tries like mad to love Cotten but can't resist Peck. ... Full Review

Lap dance clubs are everywhere these days but when a curious Laurie Taylor wanted to visit a striptease venue in his youth he had to travel 200 miles, and the experience couldn't have been less erotic. ... Full Article

Duel In The Sun is a Western crossed with Days of Our Lives. Selznick's original lusty tale, a pulp western with Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Jennifer Jones, and Joseph Cotton, was written for Teresa Wright but pregnancy forced her to... ... Full Article

If there was one constant to Gregory Peck's 50-year movie career, it was dignity. It was a character trait built into his granite jaw and booming voice. ... Full Article

(1946) In one of his earliest pictures, a classic western involving three love triangles - directed by King Vidor, screenplay and produced by David O. Selznick, adapted by Oliver H.P. Garrett from a novel by Niven Busch - Gregory Peck... ... Full Article

This early 20th century Western (the bank robbers make their getaway by jalopy) is a love-hate melodrama characteristic of writer Niven Busch . Wes (MacMurray) and Rela (Stanwyck) are lovers from way back, but after outlaw Wes goes a stick-up... ... Full Article

In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. ... Full Article