Movie
Duel in the Sun
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1946-12-31
- Runtime
- 144 min
- Genres
- Western, Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- The Selznick Studio, Vanguard Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez
- Joseph Cotten as Jesse McCanles
- Gregory Peck as Lewton "Lewt" McCanles
- Lionel Barrymore as Sen. Jackson McCanles
- Herbert Marshall as Scott Chavez
- Lillian Gish as Laura Belle McCanles
- Walter Huston as The Sinkiller
- Charles Bickford as Sam Pierce
- Harry Carey as Lem Smoot
- Joan Tetzel as Helen Langford
- Tilly Losch as Mrs. Chavez
- Butterfly McQueen as Vashti
Crew
- King Vidor - Director
- Ben Hecht - Writer
- David O. Selznick - Screenplay
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