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Yellow Sky [1948]
starring: Gregory Peck, James Barton, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur
directed by: William A. Wellman, John Schlesinger

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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014138302818
Format: PAL
Label: Cinema Club
Manufacturer: Cinema Club
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cinema Club
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 28, 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Cinema Club
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
Sales Rank: 10692

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Sorry, just don't see it
Just have to balance these other reviews, because I bought this to add to my collection and was very disappointed. Nothing at all special here.

Rating:

- All the right ingredients
I have watched this film a few times now. Yes you may have guessed I am a bit of a Western anorak. Well there are worse things to be. It is nice to see the film positively reviewed and learn I am no Robinson Crusoe watching these films on my own. I have seen other footprints in the sand. Hooray.
I wont bore you with a lengthy synopsis but just let you know why I like this film. It is not as grand as Red River which was made at around the same time, and not as good. My opinion of course. But it does have a lot going for it. I like location filming and this film is stunning in that respect. Death Valley is a magnificent, savage and bleak setting. A good place to film "Blood Meridian" I would say. The use of black and white actually enhances ... Read More:

Rating:

- Great film, fine transfer
FILM: Wellman's Yellow Sky might be one of the finest westerns of the 40s, with stunning photography, convincing dialogue and a thrilling soundtrack: there's hardly any music, instead the sounds of nature are recorded as if it was an orchestra. The only reason this is not one of the great masterpieces of world cinema (but "only" a very good film), is - in my opinion - the casting of Gregory Peck. He's not acting bad, but he's just not convincing as the bad guy turning good (as Humphrey Bogart e.g. very convincingly represented the bad guy with a golden heart). Peck just lacks the nastiness, the menace to make him believable as the leader of outlaws. DVD: there are no extras, not even english subtitles, but the transfer is excellent, the soundtrack ... Read More:

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- Great Film for Sunday Afternoons
The first time I saw this film was on a sunny Sunday afternoon, I should have been outside collecting on the sunshine and warmth. Oh no, here was a bleak black and white film of cowboys crossing a salt flat, they and their horses dying of thirst - I was captured. Old shack, grandfather and proto feminist daughter, ghost town, gold, greed - the plot is like that of Shakespeare's Tempest. A dignified outlaw in the form of Gregory Peck leading a band of some really awful men. You can't fault Greg in any film - he's as smooth as inside of an horse's ear. Yep, it was all there. I love this film. I love it to bits.

Rating:

- An excellent example of William Wellman's professional craftsmanship
When it comes to the movies, in my opinion, craftsmanship trumps art most of the time. William Wellman's Yellow Sky is a movie with an intriguing story-line, strong characters in conflict, well-paced and dramatic direction, skillful acting and a satisfyingly good-natured conclusion...and without a "message" in sight. It's a small-scale and very well-made Western which, without DVDs, would probably remain as forgotten as it has been for the last fifty years.

James Dawson (Gregory Peck) leads a gang of bank robbers, a gang that includes Dude (Richard Widmark), a gambler with a bad lung, a taste for white shirts and a love of gold. It's a couple of years after the Civil War. They rob a bank and ride out of town with the money but find themselves ... Read More:

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