Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Timing: 2:24 (144 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1946-12-31

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Vanguard Films, The Selznick Studio, Vanguard Films

Genre

Western, Romance, Drama

Budget

$8 000 000

Revenue

$20 408 163

Website

Director

King Vidor

Actors

Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Joan Tetzel
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Scenario

Ben Hecht

Producer

David O. Selznick

Operator

Harold Rosson

Composer

Dimitri Tiomkin

Artist

Audition

Editing

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• The full version of the film has a runtime of 144 minutes.
• During the filming of the scene where her character crawls over the rocks, actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) scraped her skin everywhere she possibly could.
• David O. Selznick (1902-1965) initially thought everything would be as it was when working on “Gone with the Wind” (1939) by Victor Fleming (1889-1949), George Cukor (1899-1983) and Sam Wood (1883-1949) – that it would be a grand project with no expense spared, and it eventually turned out that way. Constant delays in filming – many of which were caused by Selznick constantly interfering with the production process and frequently hiring and firing directors (there were seven in total, including Selznick himself) – as well as a painfully long editing period (as the film initially ran for 26 hours) drove up the production costs to an unprecedented $6 million for the time, plus another $2 million for marketing. The film eventually recouped its costs, but marked the beginning of the decline of Selznick's career.