Very best movie i ever watch

Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

David O. Selznick's attempt to create an epic western on a scale at least as great as the Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind". He may have failed, but the main characters are larger than life , and promise an exciting viewing experience. There are a variety of conflicts that contribute to the plot. Besides the much emphasized lust-hate relationship between foxy half-breed Pearl(Jennifer Jones ) and persistent stalker Newt McCanles(Gregory Peck), there is the Cain and Abel relationship between Lewt and brother Jesse: the one a poorly literate egomaniac(at least in regard to women), and the other a studious gentleman, soon gone to Austin to seek his fortune as a lawyer.In addition, an antagonism between Jesse and his father, Senator McCanles, develops over the right of a railroad to lay tract over a piece of the Senator's huge Texas spread. This results in a standoff between about 50 of the Senator's hands, and the railroad crew, the latter soon supplemented by a large contingent of US cavalry, who arrive just before hostilities were due to commence. Jesse stepped through the fence that divided the two groups, saying that he wanted to support the victims rather than the side of the murderers. As a result, Jesse was no longer welcome at the McCanles ranch, until near the end of the film, when Lewt was getting into big trouble. Along with wrecking a train load of explosives, Lewt had killed aging Sam Pierce(Charles Bickford) in an informal duel over Sam's announcement that he and Pearl were soon to wed. "Pearl is my woman", growled Lewt, claiming he was doing Pearl a service in preventing her from undertaking a passionless marriage with an old man(probably about 3X her estimated age!). This was Lewt's first known duel.Lewt's second duel was with brother Jesse, who was trying to extricate Pearl from her situation as Lewt's woman, with stated lack of hope to eventually become his wife. He was trying to take her to his city home he shared with his wife, to learn how to be a lady.(Apparently, she had had little schooling.) This duel consisted of Lewt and Jesse standing their ground in the main street of a town, very early in the morning before other folks stirred. Jesse came without a gun, to tell Lewt that Pearl didn't want to go with him. Lewt wasn't intimidated by this news, and threw Jesse a six-shooter, in readiness for a gun duel. Jesse refused to pick it up, so Lewt backed off some and fired one shot, apparently killing Jesse, but later he recovered from a serious wound.Lewt's third and final duel was with Pearl, whom he had instructed via messenger, to come to a distant wild rocky area for a presumed last tryst before he disappeared into Mexico for some time. But, Pearl had another purpose in meeting Lewt. As instructed by Lewt's messenger, she fired 2 shots in the air with her rifle to announce her presence and location. But then she took aim at Lewt from some distance, giving him an ultimately mortal wound. In turn, he was able to shoot her in the left shoulder, again producing a wound that she would soon die from. Pearl crawled agonizingly over rocks and dirt to reach Lewt before he expired.Many reviewers complain about, or, at least, mention the over-the-top characterizations of Lewt and Pearl as being ludicrous and unreal. I enjoyed these characterizations, not minding their excesses. Again, some complain the film was overproduced, and, again, this was not a detracting factor for me. I suspect this adds to its appeal for most. As is usually the case, Peck and Jennifer clearly were playing people 5-10 years younger than themselves. We don't get to see much of what Pearl was like and what her mother was like before her father shot her mother and lover. Apparently, her mother was unfaithful, although we don't know to what extent. Clearly, Pearl was devoted to her father. No idea how she related to her mother. Her father told her he really loved Mrs. McCanles when he was young, and she loved him, but she opted for financial stability rather than love. So, he recommended that Pearl try to move in with the McCanles, as the mother would likely be friendly with her(as she was), although the Senator didn't like having a half breed in the house.Jennifer costarred in the later film "Gone to Earth", where she plays a basically similar character: a foxy woodsy Gypsy girl on the verge of womanhood, living with her father, with no sibs. At a social , she is noticed by a rapacious handsome squire, and by an unaggressive clergyman. She marries the latter, but it's the former who excites her sexually and persists in stalking her after married. Both these films, in glorious Technicolor are currently available at YouTube.

I have scanned the other reviews here of DITS and am flabbergasted as to how anyone in their right mind could vote this a "10." Although "gorgeously photographed," the best thing that can be said about this travesty is that all film students should study it to avoid its litany of mistakes. The first most obvious one is: You cannot remake "Gone With the Wind" -- which DITS producer (and screenwriter and occasional director and ultimate destroyer) David Selznick was obviously trying to do. In GWTW, Scarlett O'Hara had clear-cut goals: to get Ashley, yes, but more importantly, to survive. In DITS, poor "half-breed" Pearl (Jennifer Jones) has apparently nothing else to do but be sex bait for good brother/closeted homosexual Jesse (Joseph Cotten) and bad brother/moron POS Lewt (Gregory Peck). There is no one to root for in this movie because it is unclear what it is about. Is it about the sad life of Pearl, who has no one in her corner, except possibly Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), mother of Jesse and Lewt, and wife of the Senator (Lionel Barrymore)? Is it about the railways making progress across the United States and encroaching upon the self-made kingdom of the Senator? Is it about Jesse and Lewt as Cain and Abel? Is it a comedy with laughs provided by poor Butterfly McQueen as "Vashti" (and why on God's earth did they name her that?! Research it!!), who is phoning in her performance from GWTW? I didn't care about anyone for one second... except I did feel bad for Jennifer Jones. It is clear she was a very attractive woman. Why they felt compelled to cast her as a "half-breed," I don't know. In order to achieve her "look" they had to bathe in her a sort of cocoa powder and constantly light her to make her look like Lupe Velez after a harsh day in the sun. She was obviously directed to lower her voice and have an inner struggle of wanting to please any man who looked at her twice and to hold on to her virginity. But throughout the story, I kept asking myself: What does this woman do? What did she do before she arrived at the Senator's home, what did she do while she was there, and what could she possibly have hoped to have done if she left? Many reviews focus on her "awful" performance. But my take is: She was doing her job. She was treated like "trash" for the entire film, and, in this way, I felt for her. She also kept referring to herself as "trash" -- but... based on what? The idea that she "succumbed" to POS Lewt? Lewt -- what a fine character he was! He would kill anyone he wanted (Charles Bickford, the only person in the film who seemed to have any morals), and blow up trains in some sort of deluded dream that he was going to please his father. He had absolutely no redeeming qualities. He was NOT Rhett Butler, who may have been a gambler, but he was a man with feelings and some level of intelligence. We can see why Scarlett may have ultimately fallen for him. But for Pearl to "give in" to Lewt... it was all so pathetically sad and insulting and degrading. This movie made it crystal clear that women were either mothers (Lillian Gish), virgins (Joan Tetzel), slaves (Butterfly McQueen) or whores (Jennifer Jones). It was a man's world and women were just expected to figure it out on their own. It is really hard to watch this in 2017, for the above reasons, and also because this film is a big, meandering mess. Who cares about the cinematography when everything else is incomprehensible? Also, apparently Selznick argued with composer Dimitri Tiomkin that he wanted "real music"; no, what he wanted was the score to "GWTW" -- and, not to demean Mr. Tiomkin, his score is completely unmemorable, no doubt because he was trying to please Selznick. Finally, since it is impossible to believe for a nanosecond that Pearl could have ever possibly loved Lewt, the entire ending is ludicrous. Some people are lucky to strike gold ONCE; that's what Selznick did with GWTW. He was unable to come close with DITS (which perhaps should be known as DITZ), and was never able to again. All in all, an absolute mistake.

King Vidor's "Duel in the Sun" is arguably a great western and perhaps the most entertaining westerns I have ever seen before, as well as one of the best David O. Selznick productions I have seen since Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), and Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind (1939). The movie stars Jennifer Jones (in an Oscar nominated performance) as Pearl Chavez a young woman from Mexico whose mother dies and her father (played by Herbert Marshall) ends up getting hanged for the murder of her mother, and Pearl feels bad about the whole thing and has to live at a relative's house in Texas where she is welcomed into her new home by an older woman named Laura Belle McCanles (played by Lillian Gish in an Oscar nominated performance) and her husband Jackson (played by Lionel Barrymore) and their two sons one who is the oldest brother and happens to be a lawyer named Jesse (played by Joseph Cotten), and the younger immature Lewton (or Lewt, who was played by Gregory Peck) which at first Pearl was in love with Jesse and then after he left she started to have a complicated relationship with Lewton. The movie also has an excellent supporting cast let alone Gish and Barrymore but it also includes Walter Huston as the local priest, and Charles Bickford as a middle aged man who wants to marry Pearl but the marriage ends before it could possibly begin. The movie has a lot of good technical aspects to it as well for example all the costumes are perfect, the cinematography by Harold Rosson, Lee Garmes, and Ray Rennahan is shot brilliantly. as well as the music by Dimitri Tiomkin is just beautiful to listen to. Another good thing about the movie was David O. Selznick's screenplay is has nothing short of great dialogue throughout the entire film, as well as the production. This movie was a western film experience that I will treasure and never forget this is one of 1946's best films.

David O. Selznick's misguided attempt to recreate the success of GWTW in a western setting. The film has pleasures to be sure but also some woefully terrible parts. On the plus side: the cinematography is gorgeous and some of the supporting performances are good, Lillian Gish and Charles Bickford come off best. However there are some fatal flaws: a meager story to pin two and a half hours of film on and an overly earnest tone are two big deficits but what really hurts the film the most is the complete miscasting of the two leads. Gregory Peck was a fine actor but he was also an icon of resolute decency, whereas other actors with that persona like Henry Fonda could occasionally play a villain convincingly Peck could not. His casting alone would not be so bad if it wasn't paired against the absurdity of Jennifer Jones as Pearl. While I'll admit to never being a fan of hers within a limited range she could be an okay actress when the role wasn't too demanding, for instance The Towering Inferno. Pearl Chavez is far outside that scope, the part isn't really that good to begin with, even an actress as skillful as Vivien Leigh would probably been hard pressed to make her real although Ava Gardner with her raw sensuality probably could have made her if not necessarily real at least convincing but Jones mistakes over emphasis with depth and Vidor's florid style of direction doesn't help her. Part of the blame probably rests with Selznick's famed smothering control and that fact he was determined to make Jones the greatest of all stars which resulted often in putting her in material for which she was not suited and away from her strengths as a performer. The film is entertaining in an often campy way but one viewing should be enough.