Anne Baxter, Gregory Peck, James Barton

Set in a ghost town in the middle of desolate salt flats, a morality play about hate and love, sin and redemption; the story centers around Stretch, his family's patriarch, who is the leader of a gang...( read more  read more... ) of outlaws whose greed for gold drives their lives.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Release Date: January 1, 1948

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DVD Release Date: May 23, 2006

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  • September 24, 2009
    WOW! Why do people not mention this western more often?! THis is an AMAZING hidden gem of a film. Starring Gregory Peck who is amazing as the gruff bank robber who slowly comes around to the better side (in a very real and not cheap old Hollywood way). Anne Baxter really surprise...( read more)s as the tough-as-nails western woman who takes crap from NO ONE. In a genre that is never usually very good to us ladies it is amazing to watch a woman in a western that isn't a whore, who doesn't need rescuing (and actually gets to help the hero out of the jam) and carries a shot gun and has an itchy finger on the trigger. Baxter plays her role with such contempt and strength- I can't give her anymore praise for what is such a different role for this genre and time.

    I can hardly believe this came out in '48. It feels more like the revisionist and darker westerns of the 70's but at the same time takes a few healthy shots of noir from the era.
  • February 11, 2009
    Good cast, ordinary western.
  • March 19, 2008
    En el western Yellow Sky (E.U., 1949) era poco lo que acontecía, apenas y algo interesante. Lo rescatable de esta película, dirigida por William A. Wellman estaba en sus personajes, un grupo de bandidos dirigidos por James ?Stretch? Dawson (Gregory Peck, con una rígida y fuerte p...( read more)resencia), que luego de robar un banco y ser perseguidos por la caballería, obligaba a sus compañeros a huir por una zona del desierto salitrosa, con el peligro de morir deshidratados. De hecho, la gran secuencia de esta travesía por el desierto valía por sí sola, un inteligente pretexto para enfrentar a los personajes de la dispareja banda de Stretch: Dude (Richard Widmark), Bull Run (Robert Arthur), Lenghty (John Russell), Half Pint (Harry Morgan) y Walrus (Charles Kemper). La secuencia también daba la oportunidad a Wellman para fotografiar hermosos paisajes desoladores, donde los ladrones intentaban caminar por la superficie blanca, en la que se hundían los caballos sedientos.

    Yellow Sky es un western más de personajes que de escenas climáticas. Hay algunas escenas de acción, bien dirigidas por Wellman, con emplazamientos interesantes y una atractiva forma de utilizar la geografía pedregosa y desértica. Todo el reparto cumplía con creces, y si había algo entretenido en la historia, eran las peleas que, como feroces bestias en celo, hacían los bandidos de Dawson, quien establecía una regla: nadie intentará nada o hará daño a Mike, o se las vería con él. ?¿Eso te incluye a ti no??, le contestará uno de sus compañeros.
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  • December 28, 2007
    i just love gregory peck :D

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