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Movie Reviews of Yellow Sky
Movie Review: Classic Peck Western Available On DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Yellow Sky is another in a growing list of great Westerns who are finally receiving their due by being released on DVD. This classic black and white Western was filmed before Peck's The Gunfighter, and some of his other great westerns, such as The Bravados and The Big Country.
Peck plays the leader of a band of outlaws who happen upon the seemingly deserted ghost town of Yellow Sky. As it turns out,the town does have two citizens, a prospector and his granddaughter. Figuring that the two have a stash of gold, the gang plans to rob the two, until Peck falls for the granddaughter, which pits Peck against his old gang, now led by Richard Widmark.
The scenes with Peck and the granddaughter, played by Anne Baxter, are marvelous. Widmark plays his typical sinister and shady desperado with aplomb, and the rest of the cast, including Harry Morgan and John Russell,
are great.
Check out Yellow Sky if you love good old B&W westerns. You won't be disappointed!
Movie Review: Unusual western by maverick Wellman
Summary: 5 Stars
"Yellow sky" ( 1948 ) is an unusual and sober Hollywood western with an unforgottable climactic duel ( one of the various unexpected dramatic twists of the movie and filmed "off-shot" ) and an emblematic movie by the maverick, untameable and today almost forgotten american director William A. Wellman, responsible of some of the best "social conscience" films of the Depression years ( " Public enemy "; " Heroes for sale "; " Wild boys of the road " ). A band of bank robbers arrive to a ghost town named " Yellow sky ", only inhabited by a prospector and his cute daughter, while they try to flee of the cavalry through the desert. The suspicion that both hide a gold fortune in the deserted town divide the band. An excellent cast leaded by Gregory Peck and supported by Richard Widmark and Anne Baxter rounds this excellent western. Very good image quality of this DVD print.
Movie Review: WILLIAM A. WELLMAN, OPUS 62
Summary: 5 Stars
***** 1948. Directed by William A. Wellman. 1867. A gang of bandits, led by Gregory Peck, must cross the desert in order to escape the army after their last hold-up. They finally arrive to a ghost town where they meet an old prospector and his granddaughter. After three or four screenings of YELLOW SKY during these last years, what striked me the most yesterday was the religious references scattered throughout the film by the screenwriter and the director. The crossing of the desert, numerous allusions to the seven deadly sins and Anne Baxter as the temptress are only a few clues you can find in this remarkable film. This is also Richard Widmark's fourth movie and his first western; four parts, four incarnations of bad guys that stay in our memory. Masterpiece.Movie Review: Exciting Western!
Summary: 5 Stars
William Wellman once more proves why he was one the most extraordinary filmmakers in this genre. From the first shot you will be involved when a bunch of thieves headed by Gregory Peck at last can arrive to a ghost town after having ridden days and days through the arid desert (a resemblance to "Greed"). Once they arrive they will meet a weird woman who lives with her grandfather and so, the dramatis will confront among themselves in search of gold.
Electrifying sequences, with an astonishing final conflict surrounded by stormy winds that accent still more the tension of the moment. Widmark is excellent too in this tour de force Western that must be part of your hard collection in case as I do are a collector of selected westerns.
Movie Review: Western Film Noir
Summary: 5 Stars
YELLOW SKY(1948) is a black-and-white, almost noirish western from director William A. Wellman.
Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark star as the leaders of an outlaw band that robs a bank, then makes their escape over a vast, deadly desert. They reach the ghost town of Yellow Sky, only populated by crusty old prospector James Barton and his daughter, Anne Baxter.
When the outlaws discover than Baxter and Barton are hiding a cache of gold, they decide to take it for themselves, but by this time Peck has fallen for Baxter and his loyalties are thus challenged.
This exciting, well-acted adult western co-stars John Russell and Harry Morgan as members of the gang.
© Michael B. Druxman