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Yellow Sky

Yellow Sky (1948)

  • 72% of users liked it
    (380 ratings)

William Wellman's westerns always seemed a little claustrophobic, but in Yellow Sky the director's technique works to the film's advantage. Outlaw leader Gregory Peck takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only inhabitants are elderly James Barton and his pretty granddaughter Anne… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Lamar Trotti, W.R. Burnett
Genres
Western, Action & Adventure, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1948 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    For seventy-odd minutes, in this scorcher from Twentieth Century-Fox, the guns blaze, fists fly and passions tangle in the best realistic Western style.

  • Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

    Takes some unusual detours that allow it to stand out from the pack.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    This superior western is marked by an outstanding performance by Gregory Peck.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    unheralded wellman western with gregory peck leading a band of outlaws across death valley to hole up in the ghost town of yellow sky. an excellent variation on the tempest/'forbidden planet' theme with anne baxter as a feisty gunslinger and richard widmark a troublemaking… More

  • Bruce B


    Excellent Western where Gregory Peck plays an Outlaw with a gang who is chased across the salt flats into what appears to be a ghost town where near dying of thirst they come across the beautiful Anne Baxter who plays the granddaughter of a miner. The gang is going to steal all the… More

  • jay n


    Good cast, ordinary western.

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