Duel in the Sun
Emotions . . . As Violent As The Wind-Swept Prairie !
Country
Production
Budget
$8 000 000
Box office
$20 408 163
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
J. McMillan Johnson
Audition
Editing
Short description
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of the scene where her character crawls over the rocks, actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) scraped her skin everywhere she possibly could.
- The full version of the film has a runtime of 144 minutes.
- David O. Selznick (1902-1965) initially thought everything would be as it was when working on “Gone with the Wind” (1939) by Victor Fleming (1889-1949), George Cukor (1899-1983) and Sam Wood (1883-1949) – that it would be a grand project with no expense spared, and it eventually turned out that way. Constant delays in filming – many of which were caused by Selznick constantly interfering with the production process and frequently hiring and firing directors (there were seven in total, including Selznick himself) – as well as a painfully long editing period (as the film initially ran for 26 hours) drove up the production costs to an unprecedented $6 million for the time, plus another $2 million for marketing. The film eventually recouped its costs, but marked the beginning of the decline of Selznick's career.
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