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Yellow Sky (1948)

24/12/1948 (US)Crime, Western1h 38m
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It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!

Overview

In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Gregory Peck

      Gregory Peck

      James "Stretch" Dawson

    2. Anne Baxter

      Anne Baxter

      Constance Mae 'Mike'

    3. Richard Widmark

      Richard Widmark

      Dude

    4. Robert Arthur

      Robert Arthur

      Bull Run

    5. John Russell

      John Russell

      Lengthy

    6. Harry Morgan

      Harry Morgan

      Half Pint

    7. James Barton

      James Barton

      Grandpa

    8. Charles Kemper

      Charles Kemper

      Walrus

    9. Carlos Acosta

      Indian (uncredited)

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    A review by Wuchak

    8.0
    Written by Wuchak on Jan 2, 2022

    _**Lost men in the Old West willing to kill over lucre and lust**_ In 1867, a band of bank robbers (Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Harry Morgan, etc.) flee through the salt flats of the desert Southwest and stumble into a ghost town inhabited only by an old prospector and his comely tomboy granddaughter (James Barton & Anne Baxter). Life-or-death conflicts ensue. “Yellow Sky” (1948) is a top-of-the-line classic B&W Western that borrows the basic premise of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and influenced future Westerns, like “The Law and Jake Wade” (1958) and “Day of the Outlaw” (1959), not t...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget-

    Revenue$2,800,000.00

    Keywords

    • bank robber
    • desert
    • ghost town
    • 19th century
    • 1860s