The Big Country
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"Released on October 1, 1958 Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor (Burl Ives) "
" (1958) Gregory Peck, ... and Charles Bickford"
" Carroll Baker and Gregory Peck Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and Charles Bickford Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons"
"The Big Country relates character psychology to a landscape that becomes the stage for highly theatricalized spectacle. When Terrill’s foreman, Leech (Charlton Heston), finally goads Jim (Gregory Peck) into a fistfight to settle their squabbles, they do so with miles of mountain ranges and desert land as the backdrop. William Wyler frames almost the entire event in extreme wide shots, reducing these otherwise towering men to the size of insects, conceiving a hilarious visual metaphor to accent"