"Duel In The Sun" 1946 Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish

- By Special Request 💞
- with Herbert Marshall Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Buttergly McQueen, Harry Carey SENIOR
- Directors* King Vidor, William Dieterle et al
- Screenplay: David O. Selznick, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht
- largely shot in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California, the film took a year & a half to shoot ... possibly due to Selznick's interference??
*Review from Patrick Preziosi:
"On the set of 1946’s Duel in the Sun, King Vidor was constantly assailed by a positively megalomaniacal David O. Selznick, who extrapolated new subplots and mini-climaxes from the already lurid western scenario, as well as imposed multiple other directors’ visions on Vidor’s so as to center and emphasize the beauty of the producer’s wife and star, Jennifer Jones. This domineering meddling, which constituted everything from re-shoots and enough lighting advisement from Josef von Sternberg to earn him a director’s credit, rattled Vidor, so much so that he began having nightmares where the cables and lighting fixtures of the shoot became sentient and strangled him. What eventually rose from the ashes is one of the most misshapen masterpieces of its era, with a foregrounded, hot-blooded emotionalism that overcomes the stop-start rhythms of this obviously belabored story."