Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun
by William Dieterle, Josef von Sternberg

List Price: ~~$14.98~~
Our Price: $9.99
You Save: $4.99 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.04 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases

Compare Prices for Duel in the Sun

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD Cover Information

Actor: Gregory Peck, Herbert Marshall, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore
Director: Josef von Sternberg, William Dieterle
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: David O. Selznick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 146 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Movie Reviews of Duel in the Sun

Movie Review: Gregory Peck as a bag guy, oh my!
Summary: 5 Stars

This has always been one of my favorites westerns, although I never went to the trouble of getting a DVD version, until it came up on my Amazon recommendation list. I ordered it right away, and received the usual good Amazon service, and quick, free shipping, and have not been disappointed. Gregory Peck is one of best actors, and makes the movie, playing the bad guy this time, instead of his usual hero role. I can personally recommend this movie, going against a number of the negative reviews that are posted here.

Write your own review

All Duel in the Sun Movie Reviews

Summary of Duel in the Sun

From the acclaimed producer of Gone With the Wind comes a torrid tale of passion and romance that s loaded with all the sweep and panache of a giant American action movie (The New Yorker)! Flawlessly cast (The Film Daily) with a bevy of film legends including Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish this salacious saga is virtually impossible not to love (The Hollywood Reporter)!When her father is hanged for murdering his wife the stunning beauty Pearl (Jones) is taken in by a wealthy Texan his wife and their two grown sons (Peck and Cotten). But Pearl soon becomes trapped in an emotional tug-of-war between her love for one son and her lust for the other igniting the most tempestuous triangle the West has ever seen!System Requirements: Running Time 146 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 027616905741 Manufacturer No: 1006373

Legendary producer David O. Selznick dreamed of another magnum opus like his 1939 production of Gone with the Wind; he also purposed to make Jennifer Jones, his ladylove and eventually second Mrs. Selznick, a megastar. Accordingly, he micromanaged the making of Duel in the Sun (Lust in the Dust to some), an extravagant Technicolor epic about the collision of the old West with the new, wide-open spaces with railroads and barbed wire, and hot-blooded outlaws with civilized folk, often wimpy or unwell. Beginning among giant rocks drenched in a blood-red sunset, with velvet-voiced Orson Welles intoning the leibestod legend of doomed Pearl Chavez and her demon lover, Duel never strays far from lush romanticism, spiced with a dash of S/M. Orphaned Pearl (Jones) comes to live at Spanish Bit Ranch, where frail Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish) tries to make a lady of her, despite her questionable origins and insistent voluptuousness. Sexual license versus law--Pearl's choices--are symbolized by the McCanles brothers: dark, undisciplined Lewt (a lubriciously wicked Gregory Peck) and reasonable, forward-looking, repressed Jesse (Joseph Cotten). The cast is huge (Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Butterfly McQueen) and there are unforgettable set pieces: summoned by a cacophony of bells, the gathering of McCanles cowboys from the four corners of the earth; Pearl in heat, clutching Lewt's leg and being dragged across the floor as he makes his getaway to Mexico; and the lovers' final shootout among those red rocks, as orgiastic a finale as you could ask for. --Kathleen Murphy

Art House & International DVD Video

DVD Video

Movies most talked about in Academy awards nominees (actresses) (girls who lost) 1941 - 1953

Rebecca - Criterion Collection
Release date: 2001-11-20; DVD
Best price: $149.00

The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-03-01; DVD
Best price: $12.04
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~

Our Town
Release date: 2006-11-13; DVD
Best price: $9.95

The Letter
Release date: 2005-01-11; DVD
Best price: $10.73
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

The Little Foxes
Release date: 2001-09-18; DVD
Best price: $6.00
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Blossoms in the Dust
Release date: 2008-11-11; DVD
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops: ~~$19.97~~

Ball of Fire
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $7.26
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Woman of the Year
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2000-09-19; DVD
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

The Pride of the Yankees (Collector's Edition)
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-03-18; DVD
Best price: $7.25
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-06-14; DVD
Best price: $11.93
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

Similar DVD Movies

High Noon (Collector's Edition)
Release date: 2002-10-22; DVD
Best price: $7.75
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Shane
PARAMOUNT PICTURES; Release date: 2000-08-15; DVD
Best price: $4.46
Price in other shops: ~~$9.99~~

The Bravados
Release date: 2005-05-24; DVD
Best price: $6.70
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection) Image

El Cid (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition) (The Miriam Collection)
WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-01-29; DVD
Best price: $16.10
Price in other shops: ~~$24.95~~

Broken Arrow
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-05-22; DVD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Red River
WAYNE,JOHN; Release date: 1997-11-19; DVD
Best price: $5.33
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil)
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-05-13; DVD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~