Yellow Sky (1948)
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- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 98 mins
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Yellow Sky
William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne Baxter. Barton reveals that there's gold hereabouts, prompting a few of Peck's companions--especially Richard Widmark--to plot the old man's demise and claim the treasure for themselves. For his part, Peck is basically honorable, and offers to split fifty-fifty with Barton. Dissension, hostility and gunplay ensue, finally narrowing down to a standoff between Peck and Widmark. Yellow Sky was based on a novel by W.R. Burnett, who moved from westerns to gangster stories and back again with the greatest of ease. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Yellow Sky:
Richard Widmark also in No Way Out , The Long Ships , The Last Wagon , The Frogmen , Warlock , To the Devil, a Daughter
John Russell also in Man in the Saddle , Rio Bravo , Pale Rider , Jesse James , Somewhere in the Night
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