Duel in the Sun (1946)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

King Vidor
(más)

Escritores:

Niven Busch (novel)
Oliver H.P. Garrett (adaptation)
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 diciembre 1948 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

Emotions . . . As Violent As The Wind-Swept Prairie !

Plot:

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Plot Keywords:

Shooting | Half Breed | Texas | Desert | Loss Of Father

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Loud, boisterous, silly but hugely enjoyable sex Western

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 6

3:30 AM

TCM

Reparto

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
Harry Carey	...	Lem Smoot
Joan Tetzel	...	Helen Langford
Tilly Losch	...	Mrs. Chavez
Butterfly McQueen	...	Vashti
Scott McKay	...	Sid
Otto Kruger	...	Mr. Langford
Sidney Blackmer	...	The Lover
Charles Dingle	...	Sheriff Hardy
Griff Barnett	...	The Bordertown Jailer
Lane Chandler	...	Fence-Line Cavalry Captain
Tom Dillon	...	Train Engineer (as Thomas Dillon)
Robert McKenzie	...	Bartender Zeke
Lloyd Shaw	...	Barbecue Dance Caller
Frank Cordell	...	Sid
Dan White	...	Ed, the Wrangler
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Hank Bell	...	McCanles Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Johnny Bond	...	Cowhand at Barbecue (uncredited)
Tex Cooper	...	Square Dancer (uncredited)
Steve Dunhill	...	Jake (uncredited)
Si Jenks	...	Dance-Floor Cowboy (uncredited)
Victor Kilian	...	Gambler (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard	...	Barfly (uncredited)
Francis McDonald	...	Gambler (uncredited)
Lee Phelps	...	Train Fireman (uncredited)
Rose Plumer	...	Dancer (uncredited)
Bert Roach	...	Barbecue Guest (uncredited)
Al Taylor	...	Cowboy at Barbecue (uncredited)
Orson Welles	...	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson	...	Dance-Floor Cowboy (uncredited)
Hank Worden	...	Dance- Floor Cowboy (uncredited)

Dirigida por
King Vidor
Otto Brower		(uncredited)
William Dieterle		(uncredited)
Sidney Franklin		(uncredited)
William Cameron Menzies		(uncredited)
David O. Selznick		(uncredited)
Josef von Sternberg		(uncredited)

Créditos del guión
Niven Busch		(novel)
Oliver H.P. Garrett		adaptation &
David O. Selznick		screenplay
Ben Hecht		uncredited

Producida por
David O. Selznick	....	producer (uncredited)

Música original por
Dimitri Tiomkin

Fotografía por
Lee Garmes		(director of photography)
Ray Rennahan		(director of photography)
Harold Rosson		(director of photography) (as Hal Rosson)

Diseño de producción por
J. McMillan Johnson

Dirección artística
James Basevi

Dirección de producción
Fred Ahern	....	assistant production manager (uncredited)
Glenn Cook	....	unit manager (uncredited)
Richard Johnston	....	production manager (uncredited)
William McGarry	....	unit manager (uncredited)
Argyle Nelson	....	production manager (uncredited)

Ayudante de dirección
Otto Brower	....	second unit director
B. Reeves Eason	....	second unit director (as Reaves Eason)
Lowell J. Farrell	....	assistant director
Harvey Dwight	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Chester M. Franklin	....	second unit director (uncredited)

Departamento de Arte
John Ewing	....	associate art director
Emile Kuri	....	interior decorator
John Brent	....	property master (uncredited)
Arden Cripe	....	assistant property master (uncredited)
Roy McLaughlin	....	greensman (uncredited)
Fred Widdowson	....	property master (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Richard DeWeese	....	sound recordist (as Richard De Weese)
James G. Stewart	....	sound director

Efectos especiales
Clarence Slifer	....	special effects
Jack Cosgrove	....	special photographic effects (uncredited)

Especialistas
Richard Farnsworth	....	stunts (uncredited)

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Charles P. Boyle	....	additional photographer
Raymond Bahns	....	key grip (uncredited)
Allen M. Davey	....	additional cinematographer (uncredited)
Homer Plannette	....	gaffer (uncredited)
Morris Rosen	....	key grip (uncredited)
Cliff Shirpser	....	assistant camera: Technicolor (uncredited)

Departamento de vestuario
Harry Apperson	....	master drapes (uncredited)

Departamento de Edición
John Faure	....	associate film editor
Hal C. Kern	....	supervising film editor
William H. Ziegler	....	associate film editor (as Wm. Ziegler)
Noel Coppleman	....	assistant editor (uncredited)
Wayland M. Hendry	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Departamento de Música
Dimitri Tiomkin	....	conductor
Lucien Cailliet	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Herschel Burke Gilbert	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Jester Hairston	....	choral director (uncredited)
Paul Marquardt	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Joseph Nussbaum	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
George Parrish	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
David Tamkin	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Dimitri Tiomkin	....	musical director (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Natalie Kalmus	....	technicolor color director
Tilly Losch	....	solo dances creator
Morgan Padelford	....	associate technicolor color director
Lydia Schiller	....	scenario assistant
David O. Selznick	....	presenter: his production in Technicolor of
Lloyd Shaw	....	group dances
Adele Cannon	....	script clerk (uncredited)
Joel Freeman	....	production clerk (uncredited)
Ann Harris	....	researcher (uncredited)
Paul MacNamara	....	publicity director (uncredited)
Ralph McCutcheon	....	horse trainer (uncredited)
Donna M. Norridge	....	script clerk (uncredited)
Agnes Pottage	....	script clerk (uncredited)

Compañías Productores

• Vanguard Films (for) (uncredited)
• Selznick Studio, The

Distribuidores

• Selznick Releasing Organization (1946) (USA) (theatrical)
• Schorcht Filmverleih Gmbh (1952) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Selznick Releasing Organization (1960) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Emerald (2006) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Playhouse Home Video (????) (USA) (video)

También conocida como:

King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
Duelo al sol (Spain) [es]

Duración:

USA:144 min (roadshow version) | USA:129 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Iceland:12 | USA:Approved (PCA #11649) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG (video rating) (1986) | UK:A (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arizona, USA

Compañía:

Vanguard Films

Trivialidades:

Film debut of Joan Tetzel.

Citas:

The Sinkiller: Under that heathen blanket, there's a full-blossomed woman built by the devil to drive men crazy.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Dip huet seung hung (1989)

Banda de Sonido:

Beautiful Dreamer

Loud, boisterous, silly but hugely enjoyable sex Western

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. She also is hated by the father (Lionel Barrymore) and protected by the mother (Lillian Gish).

Beautifully filmed in Technicolor this is a fun movie. The dialogue is full of howlers and, for it's time, this was pretty strong stuff. The emphasis is on sex and that bothered audiences in the late 40s. An entire dance by Jones was cut out and the release of the film was delayed because of the content! Today it's very tame and pretty funny.

Jones is horribly miscast as Pearl. She's very beautiful and wears tight, revealing clothing all through the film, but her acting is terrible. She sneers and glares her way through all her scenes and seems incapable of saying any line believably. Peck is surprisingly very good playing an evil man. Cotten and Gish are stuck with thankless good person roles. Barrymore REALLY chews the scenery. And the opening narration is by Orson Welles!

This movie was made by David O. Selznick to showcase his then girlfriend (and future wife) Jones. Purportedly he made this with serious intentions. It was a big hit but most critics dismissed it as trash. Today it's just a true camp classic. Hysterically bad but beautifully filmed and loads of fun. The climax especially is a howler. A great party flick.

In it's own way, this is a definite must-see.