Alexander Flood Seriously, IMDb..? "Half-breed"? Is it a film about a nice mongrel dog, then? ..a splendid horse with some donkey mixed in, perchance? I fully realize this is the original WWII era description talking, but are you similarly keeping all references to Negroes in out-dated descriptions, for example? Maybe Spic, Chink or Gook? Maybe Kike to get off "race" and onto religion? Or what about calling whole peoples Heathens, Barbarians or Savages? Or what about a child without married parents being a Bastard? Should perhaps a Retard reference be kept here and there, I wonder? And the list goes on. Thankfully, the civilized world has moved on and I suggest IMDb does the same.

HotToastyRag Everyone knows Gregory Peck as the very picture of American integrity, but my favorite of his performances is Duel in the Sun. There's no trace of Atticus Finch in this movie; every bit of him is bad, and he never looked so good. In this wildly romantic drama, Jennifer Jones is torn between the kind, stable, respectful Joseph Cotton and the bad, manly, sexy Gregory Peck. Tough decision! After his successful production of Gone with the Wind, it's no wonder David O'Selznick created such a beautiful, exciting love triangle. And while the script was original written for Teresa Wright, Jennifer Jones ended up playing the lead and marrying her producer three years later. You can find lots of trivia about what a headache the film was to make, including a very funny argument between O'Selznick and Dimitri Tiomkin about the musical score, but in my review I'd rather focus on the positives.Jennifer Jones plays a "half-breed" who comes to live with Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore in Texas. Yes, it's terribly politically incorrect, but you've got to get into the dated mindset to appreciate the story. Lionel is grouchy and racist, Jenny desperately wants to cling to her "purity", and marrying a "half-breed" is unthinkable in a respectable family. Despite all that, it's a wonderful romantic drama. Lush, exciting, well-written, well-acted, dramatic, and heart-wrenching, Duel in the Sun earns its place among the greatest classic romances of all time. Jenny gives a wonderfully layered performance, juggling sweet, sultry, innocent, trampy, and passionate. Greg is a delicious bad boy; it's a miracle he didn't get typecast as a villain for the rest of his career. Add in crotchety Lionel, Lillian as an unfair mother, Joseph Cotton as a pre-Atticus Finch, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Walter Huston, and Butterfly McQueen, and you have an unforgettable cast.While this might not be the best first date movie, watch this with your long-time sweetie pie, or with a bunch of your girlfriends. It's pretty heavy, but it's definitely one to watch.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Watched for first time in 1984 on television now a widescreen DVD. Selznick produced this magnificent western about a love triangle between Jennifer Jones as Bobcat Peck as the bad guy and Cotten the good,settled in 1860 in Texas where the Senator have a large ranch who living in conflict with oldest son Jesse meanwhile prefer the young son Lewt which have your personality and ruthless,When the Wild girl called Pearl arrived in the ranch to live with the cousins after death's father she falling in love for both cousins,but Lewt is more able to get Pearl's heart. This movie is pleasant to watch because all characters are strong enough Gregory Peck in unusual role as bad guy,Jennifer Jones fantastic as wild girl,Cotten quite often as Good Guy and Barrymore as lawless Senator and Lillian Gish as mother who living trying to protect Jesse. The final is marvelous with Lewt and Pearl as the equals!!!Looking forward for DVD restoration!!

Robert J. Maxwell The hero of this glitzy and gigantic Western is not the well-intentioned but ultimately slutty Jennifer Jones, not the dull, morally upright figure of Joseph Cotton, not the roguish but psychopathic Gregory Peck, but rather the composer of the musical score, Dmitri Tiompkin.You never heard such bombast. There's a "prelude" that seems to last half an hour, followed by a scarcely shorter "overture." Tiompkin has used cowbells before. Here, the head honcho of Spanish Bit, Lionel Barrymore, signals his men to mount up by ringing a church bell. The church bell is joined by more church bells, one after another, all in harmony, until the ears ring as well as the bells. I must say, though, that I missed the flatulence of the trombones that appeared in his later work, a kind of punctuation made of loud BLATTS like a dozen elephants farting in tune.And every character and every emotion has its own leitmotif. They're all euphonious, easy to listen to, like Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite." Poor, sentimental old Lillian Gish, whether defiant or dying, gets only "Beautiful Dreamer." Producer David O. Selznick, high on benzedrine, must have been taking a crack at the epic that made him famous and rich in Hollywood, "Gone With the Wind." You know -- a real BIG one. It's not too hard to spot the isomorphisms. Jennifer Jones, whose heart leads her astray, is Scarlett O'Hara. Joseph Cotton is assigned the role of the weak gentleman. Peck is the feckless cynic who sees through everybody, like Rhett Butler."Gone With the Wind" was so overblown that some of the dramatic incidents were actually funny, easily parodied. It's known as "bathos." This one is even more bloated, only without any good tag lines. Jennifer Jones, who cannot conquer her half-breed nature, is toothsome. She has dark make up and crimson lip stick, so when she gapes or smiles, her blinding white teeth resemble the plastic ones you might buy in a novelty shop to go with your Dracula costume.The whole affair is a Grand Guignol of lust. There's an extra-familial conflict: Barrymore as the owner of a huge ranch on the one hand, and the railroad that needs to cut through his land on the other. Not nearly enough time is given to it. Instead we have Gregory Peck repeated seducing and raping Jennifer Jones, when it's not the other way round.