Duel in the Sun
When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, the biracial Pearl Chavez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas. Welcomed by Laura Belle and her elder lawyer son Jesse, she meets with hostility from the ranch-owner himself, wheelchair-bound Senator Jackson McCanles, and with lustful interest from demonizing, unruly younger son Lewt. Almost at once, already existing family tensions are exacerbated by her presence and the way she is physically drawn to Lewt. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Director: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle
Actors: Gregory Peck, Herbert Marshall, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston
Country: United States