Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

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Plot

In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike (Anne Baxter) and her Grandpa (James Barton). Stretch is attracted to Mike.

While the men recover from their ordeal, Dude (Richard Widmark) snoops around. Dude tells the others that the old man is mining gold, but Stretch is unimpressed. The next day, Mike and Grandpa take to the hills. A confrontation between Stretch and Dude over the leadership of the gang is interrupted by Mike shooting at them. However, when Grandpa is shot in the leg, Mike surrenders.

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Back in the house, Grandpa offers to split his gold, worth roughly $50,000 by his estimate. Later, Lengthy (John Russell) grabs Mike, and youngster Bull Run (Robert Arthur) tries unsuccessfully to intervene. Stretch rescues him and holds Lengthy's head underwater until he nearly drowns. That night, Stretch assures Mike and Grandpa that he will keep to the bargain, with Dude eavesdropping.

The next day, a large band of Apaches appear while the gang is at the mine digging up the gold. Stretch sneaks into town. Grandpa tells him that he convinced his friends to return to the reservation. In gratitude for the old man not sending the Indians to wipe out his gang, Stretch tells his men that they will share the gold, but Dude draws his gun and fires. The rest of the outlaws follow his example. Mike shows up and helps a slightly wounded Stretch back to her home. Not wanting to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders for Stretch, the gang surrounds the house. In the ensuing gunfight, they think that Stretch has been killed. Dude takes the opportunity to shoot at Lengthy, but misses. He then runs off to try to take all the gold for himself, with his would-be victim in pursuit. Bull Run is fatally wounded, and Walrus (Charles Kemper) and Half Pint (Harry Morgan) decide to switch sides. Stretch then goes after Dude and Lengthy. A deadly three-sided shootout in the unlit saloon follows. Afterwards, a frantic Mike finds Dude and Lengthy dead and Stretch wounded.

After Stretch recovers, he, Walrus and Half Pint return to the bank they robbed and give back the stolen money. Then, they ride off with Mike and Grandpa.

Cast

Gregory Peck as James 'Stretch' Dawson

Anne Baxter as Constance Mae or 'Mike'

Richard Widmark as Dude

Robert Arthur as Bull Run

John Russell as Lengthy

Harry Morgan as Half Pint

James Barton as Grandpa

Charles Kemper as Walrus

In a memo, studio head Darryl F. Zanuck suggested Walter Huston for the role of Grandpa and Fred Clark for Lengthy. Paulette Goddard was originally cast as Mike.

Production

The studio purchased W. R. Burnett's unpublished novel for $35,000 in November 1947. All drafts of the screenplay were written by Lamar Trotti.

The western commenced a construction crew of over 150 men and women to build a ghost town in the desert near Lone Pine, California, by demolishing a Movie Set, called "Last Outpost", that Tom Mix had built in 1923. Exteriors were also filmed at Death Valley National Monument, with the cast and crew living at Furnace Creek Inn and Camp, which was leased from the Pacific Coast Borax Company.

At the time of filming, animal cruelty regulations only permitted horses to be on the set for three hours.[citation needed]

The opening and closing music was taken from Alfred Newman's score for the Twentieth Century-Fox film Brigham Young (1940), which was also written by Trotti.

Adaptations and remakes

The success of the film spawned a radio adaptation starring Peck and hosted by director William A. Wellman which was broadcast on Screen Directors' Playhouse on NBC Radio on July 15, 1949.

The film was remade in 1967 as The Jackals. Filmed in South Africa by producer-director Robert D. Webb, The Jackals starred Robert Gunner, Diana Iverson and, as the old man, Vincent Price. The film, however, was never given a theatrical release, but was shown on television.

References

^ Howard, Tony Shakespeare's Cinematic Offshoots in Jackson, Russell (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 ISBN 0512639751 295-313 at 296

External links

Yellow Sky at the Internet Movie Database

Yellow Sky at Allmovie

Yellow Sky at the TCM Movie Database

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William A. Wellman

1920s

Second Hand Love The Man Who Won Big Dan Cupid's Fireman Not a Drum Was Heard The Vagabond Trail The Circus Cowboy When Husbands Flirt The Boob You Never Know Women The Cat's Pajamas Wings The Legion of the Condemned Ladies of the Mob Beggars of Life Chinatown Nights The Man I Love Woman Trap

1930s

Dangerous Paradise Young Eagles Maybe It's Love Other Men's Women The Public Enemy Night Nurse The Star Witness Safe in Hell The Hatchet Man So Big! Love Is a Racket The Purchase Price The Conquerors Frisco Jenny Central Airport Lilly Turner Heroes for Sale Midnight Mary Wild Boys of the Road Female College Coach Looking for Trouble Stingaree The President Vanishes The Call of the Wild The Robin Hood of El Dorado Small Town Girl A Star Is Born Nothing Sacred Men With Wings Beau Geste The Light that Failed

1940s

Reaching for the Sun Roxie Hart The Great Man's Lady Thunder Birds Lady of Burlesque The Ox-Bow Incident Buffalo Bill This Man's Navy The Story of G.I. Joe Gallant Journey Magic Town The Iron Curtain Yellow Sky Battleground

1950s

The Next Voice You Hear... The Happy Years Across the Wide Missouri It's a Big Country Westward the Women My Man and I Island in the Sky The High and the Mighty Track of the Cat Blood Alley Good-bye, My Lady Darby's Rangers Lafayette Escadrille

Television

Light's Diamond Jubilee (with Alan Handley), Christian Nyby, Roy Rowland, Norman Taurog, King Vidor and Bud Yorkin) (1954)

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