Overview:
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".| Status: | Released (1948-12-24) |
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| Awards: | 2 wins |
| BoxOffice: | $5,600,000 |
| Screen: | Lamar Trotti, W.R. Burnett |
| Productions: | 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 8487: Gregory Peck - James "Stretch" Dawson
- 10606: Anne Baxter - Constance Mae 'Mike'
- 12149: Richard Widmark - Dude
- 78304: Robert Arthur - Bull Run
- 4304: John Russell - Lengthy
- 4073: Harry Morgan - Half Pint
- 98465: James Barton - Grandpa
Crews
- 14643: William A. Wellman - Director - Directing
- 14646: Lamar Trotti - Producer - Production
- 80728: W.R. Burnett - Story - Writing
- 231264: Fred Sersen - Special Effects - Crew
- 9803: Bernard Freericks - Sound - Sound
- 3358: Lyle R. Wheeler - Art Direction - Art
- 8508: Thomas Little - Set Decoration - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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Stay away from my men, and stop swinging those damn hips all over the place. Stretch is the leader of bank robbing desperadoes, after their latest job they find the US Cavalry hot on their tail. Their only conceivable route of escape is to traipse over an enormous salt flat, low ....
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_**Lost men in the Old West willing to kill over lucre and lust**_ In 1867, a band of bank robbers (Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Harry Morgan, etc.) flee through the salt flats of the desert Southwest and stumble into a ghost town inhabited only by an old prospector and his come ....
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Gregory Peck ("Stretch") leads a miscreant gang of bank robbers, who are chased by a troop of army cavalry into a deserted gold mining town that's occupied only by a young (and pretty) Anne Baxter ("Mike") and her grandfather James Barton. Desperately thirsty after their trudge acros ....
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