Duel in the Sun (film)

Duel in the Sun is a Technicolor 1946 Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, which tells the story of a Mestiza halfNative American girl who goes to live with her caucasian relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. The movie stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore.

Arriving by stagecoach, Pearl is met by Jesse McCanles Joseph Cotten, one of Laura Belles two grown sons. He takes her to Spanish Bit, their enormous cattle ranch. The gentle and gracious Laura Belle is happy to welcome her to their home, but not so her husband, the wheelchairbound Senator Jackson McCanles Lionel Barrymore, who calls her a halfbreed and jealously despises Pearls father.The second son, Lewt Gregory Peck, is a ladies man with a personality quite unlike that of his gentlemanly brother Jesse. He expresses his interest in Pearl in direct terms and she takes a strong dislike to him. Laura Belle calls in Mr. Jubal Crabbe, the Sinkiller Walter Huston, a guntoting preacher, to counsel Pearl on how to avoid the evils of temptation. Pearl is determined to remain a good girl. ........

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