Duel in the Sun
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Movie Reviews of Duel in the Sun
Movie Review: Duel in the Sun
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're a fan of Jennifer Jones or Gregory Peck you'll want to check out this movie. It's rare for Gregory Peck to play a "bad guy" but he's good at it! If you like him as the bad guy, you'll want to buy "Yellow Sky" as well. Good chemistry between the stars. It was one of my Mother's favorites!Movie Review: SEX DRIVEN WESTERN FALLS SHORT
Summary: 3 Stars
The legendary Producer David O. Selznick,of Gone with Wind Fame,wanted to produce another classic and he mightily tried with Duel in the Sun,directed by King Vidor,and starring Selznicks' paramour and later wife Jennifer Jones.
Ms Jones is Pearl Chavez a half breed who lands on her "white" relatives ranch,run by reactionary Lionel Barrymore.The fetching ms Jones attracts the attention of Barrymores' amoral son Lewt,played by Gregory Peck.
After a great opening the film becomes something of a bore with Peck playing a rather repulsive character.
Lillian Gish,Herbery Marshall, Charles Bickford,Joseph Cotton,Walter Huston,hamming it up as a bogus preacher,Otto Krueger,and Harry Carey,sr.,all lend a colorful hand to the very mediocre proceedings.The technicolor is great and there is an excellent score by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Movie Review: Oh, it's not THAT bad...
Summary: 3 Stars
Reading some of these reviews makes one think DITS was a notch or two below Ed Wood. Yeah, the script is often trite and/or corny as well as unbelievable, and these is some miscasting or at least under-development of characters (Cotten, for example), but as a whole, the film is emminently watchable, simply for its sprawling saga-like tale. It's not a masterpiece of cinema by any means,but far from garbage. Yes, Peck and Jones go way over the top sometimes, and while Jones was not a great actress, she was far from talentless,as evidenced in some of her other films. And, truth be told, if you think about it objectively, her scenery-chewing sequences here aren't that much worse that Vivien Leigh's in Gone With The Wind. Yeah, it was a better film, but let's face it; Viv wasn't exactly below the rim the whole film either. Absolutely worth seeing.Movie Review: Duel in the Sun
Summary: 3 Stars
Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck appear to be having a great time in their scenes together, Peck especially. I've never seen him look so relaxed in any of his later films. This is one of the hokiest movies I've ever seen in my life but I've viewed it over and over because it's so much fun to watch.
I gave it three stars because it has so few chapter stops. This movie runs over 2 hours and 10 minutes and it should have more chapters than it does. It's especially annoying that Prelude and Overture are in the same chapter. They should be separate so that you can skip the music and listen to the seriously hilarious voice-over introduction to the film.
Movie Review: Turgid Is The Word.....
Summary: 3 Stars
My quick opinion: 3 stars because I'm sentimental about the great stars in it. The fatal flaw, picked up on decades ago--and correctly--is that the emotions are overwrought, the characters underdeveloped, and the attempts to create genuine emotional tension, and involvement on the part of the viewer, too calculated and artificial to be "real". Rightfully assessed as a failed attempt to reproduce the oomph of "Gone With The Wind". It's basically a turgid, forced melodrama, despite the best scene-chewing efforts of the admittedly sexy Jennifer Jones and a very against-type Gregory Peck. A legendary film, but not a great one. "Lust In The Dust" indeed.