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Yellow Sky (US) 1948
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Escaping after a bank robbery, the gang takes off across the desert to lose the pursuing posse and seem to be facing a certain death from exposure when they see a town off in the distance at the far edge of the drifting sands. It's no mirage and it's no sanctuary, it's a ghost town with two human occupants: an old man and a woman. There are some that will say that this William Wellman-directed western is another variation on Shakespeare's The Tempest and that is a reference that this film neither merits nor needs.
The outlaws have their own internal gang problems and what ends up focusing their cooperative spirit - at least for a while - is the old man's gold sealed up in an abandoned mine. It's no spoiler to say that things go south pretty fast. Really enjoyed how this flick is put together with a good cast, a good script and Wellman's no-nonsense hands on the reins. The ending seems written by the Hays Office and that's just too typical of the time in which the film was made.
Screenplay by Lamar Trotti based on a novel by WR Burnett. Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald and music by Alfred Newman. With Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, and Harry Morgan, among others.
Escaping after a bank robbery, the gang takes off across the desert to lose the pursuing posse and seem to be facing a certain death from exposure when they see a town off in the distance at the far edge of the drifting sands. It's no mirage and it's no sanctuary, it's a ghost town with two human occupants: an old man and a woman. There are some that will say that this William Wellman-directed western is another variation on Shakespeare's The Tempest and that is a reference that this film neither merits nor needs.
The outlaws have their own internal gang problems and what ends up focusing their cooperative spirit - at least for a while - is the old man's gold sealed up in an abandoned mine. It's no spoiler to say that things go south pretty fast. Really enjoyed how this flick is put together with a good cast, a good script and Wellman's no-nonsense hands on the reins. The ending seems written by the Hays Office and that's just too typical of the time in which the film was made.
Screenplay by Lamar Trotti based on a novel by WR Burnett. Cinematography by Joseph MacDonald and music by Alfred Newman. With Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, and Harry Morgan, among others.
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