Duel in the Sun

From the acclaimed producer of GONE WITH THE WIND (David O . Selznick 1902-1965) comes a torrid table of passion and romance thats loaded with "all" the sweep and panache of giant American action movie (The New Yorker 1931) ! . Flawlessy cast with a bevy of film legends , including Jennifer Jones (1919 - ), Gregory Peck (1916-2003) , Joseph Cotten (1905-1994) , Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) and Lilian Gish (1893-1993) , this salacious saga is virtually impossible not to love . When her father is hanged for murdering his wife , the stunning beauty Pearl (Jones) is taken in by a weathy Texan , his wife and their two grown sons (Peck and Cotton) 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 tempestous triangle west has ever seen ! . A Lawish , sensual spectacle ! Irresistibly Entertaining . High Quality Transfer . Recommended

Its not a great film, certainly, but you knew that already. A must for camp enthusiasts, to be sure. A classic.

This film was superb in color, music, and story. The amount of horses they had for the film was mind boggling. I remember going to the movie when I was very young and it always stuck with me as one of my favorites.

Jennifer Jones was absolutely gorgeous. Beyond that, this film is...well, kinda hard to watch. Gregory Peck's character, "Lewt" (or "Lewd," IMO), is suitably repulsive...the plot is weak...Miss Jones overacts painfully, contorting all over the screen...Joseph Cotton appears tranquilized (or perhaps alcoholized, which is understandable, considering what he had to work with here), the script is at times unbearably corny...one longs for someone to put Barrymore out of his (and our) misery...in fact, it's hard to come up with much of redeemable value...I derived some masochistic enjoyment from it and spent much time with my mouth hanging open in disbelief at the campy awfulness of it all.

I was grateful when it ended, though.

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.