Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust) (1946)

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6.7	IMDB rating

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Directed by (View all)

Josef von Sternberg

David O. Selznick

Starring (View all)

Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez

Joseph Cotten
Jesse McCanles

Gregory Peck
Lewton 'Lewt' McCanles

Lionel Barrymore
Sen. Jackson McCanles

Herbert Marshall
Scott Chavez

Lillian Gish
Laura Belle McCanles

Walter Huston
The Sinkiller

Charles Bickford
Sam Pierce

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David O. Selznick
(screenplay)

Niven Busch

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Duel in the Sun

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Super-producer David O. Selznick intended to follow-up his gargantuan success of Gone with the Wind with this epic horse opera. Much like that Oscar adorned production, Duel in the Sun lacks a strong directorial signature and instead is the product of Selznick’s outsized ambition and vision. Selznick intended to top that prior film with this one, and while he misses the mark on an artistic level... read more

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When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed 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 womanising, 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. Written by Jeremy Perkins

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Tags: Western (8), Romance (6), Drama (6), 1940s (4), Jealousy (3), Murder (3), Railroad (3), Senator (3), 1946 (3), Music (2), Harry Carey (1), Butterfly McQueen (1), Prelude (1), Joseph Cotten (1), Family Strife (1), Seven Directors (1), Lionel Barrymore (1), Herbert Marshall (1), Charles Bickford (1), Narrator (1)

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