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Duel in the Sun is a 1946 American epic psychological Western film directed by King Vidor, produced and written by David O. Selznick, and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, and Lionel Barrymore.
With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore. Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Treacherous ranch heir Lewt (Gregory Peck) taunts Pearl (Jennifer Jones), the sexy Mexican-Indian ward of his mother, into riding his horse bare-back, resulting in a raucous chase, with innuendo, in director King Vidor's provocative.
When Pearl notices Laura Belle's son, the fiery Lewt, life on the ranch erupts into chaos. The two have a brief courtship, but Lewt abruptly ends the relationship. When Pearl tries to move on...
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Synopsis. Pearl Chaves (Jennifer Jones) can't prevent her father, Scott Chaves, (Herbert Marshall) to get wind of her mother (Tilly Losch)'s unfaithfulness with a lover (Sidney Blackmer). Scott gets so angry that he shoots both the mother and the lover. He's sentenced to death in court.
Jun 17, 2015 · Jennifer Jones plays Pearl Chavez; she’s orphaned when her father kills her mother and her mother’s lover in a fit of jealous rage and is then hanged for his crime. She goes to live on the Texas ranch of her father’s second cousin — Laura Bell McCanles — with whom the father was once in love.
The film, set in Texas in the 1880s, opens with a prologue (spoken by the doom-laden voice of Orson Welles) and a fade-in on a mountain in the shape of a face - Squaw's Head Rock, that is bathed in the bloody-red color of the setting sun.
Pearl's prayer session with the hellfire preacher and traveling minister Mr. Jubal Crabbe (Walter Huston), known as the Sin Killer, who was provide guidance for Pearl to behave herself and be a 'good girl' - he advised: "Pearl, you're curved in the flesh of temptation.
In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a bad girl foredoomed to an unhappy end.
