Duel in the Sun overview

Duel in the Sun

Synopsis:

In David O. Selznick's florid, overheated melodrama Duel in the Sun Jennifer Jones stars as half-Native American Pearl Chavez, who everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. Her father is Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall), an ill-fated fellow who kills his wife and her lover (Sidney Blackmer) and gets hung for it. Pearl is taken into the home of the greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been Scott's sweetheart.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: King Vidor
  • Studio: Selznick International, Vanguard
  • Year: 1946
  • Run Time: 130 minutes
  • Country: UK, USA
  • Language: English
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Drama, Western
  • Filmed in: Color