![]() Almost at once, Pearl upends the whole household: the Senator hates her, Laura Belle dotes on her, Jesse wants to rescue her and Lewt just plain wants her. Breathlessly snarling from behind hundreds of layers of Coppertone, she leaves you longing for the dramatic realism of John Wayne as Genghis Khan.Īfter her father (Herbert Marshall) is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, Pearl packs up her vast wardrobe of oddly form-fitting peasant dresses and goes off to live with distant relatives: the evil Senator Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), his stoic wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), and their polar-opposite sons, Lewt and Jesse (Cotten at his most earnest and adorable). After Teresa Wright bowed out due to what may have been the most fortuitous pregnancy this side of the Virgin Mary, Jones was (mis)cast by her lover, David O. To be fair, she was doomed before the movie even started. ![]() Poor Jennifer Jones never stands a chance. But there’s just enough of that old sincerity there to keep a girl hanging in with him long after she ought to hit the road. Everything you love about Gregory Peck is still there-the slouchy sexiness, the languid, easy manner, the casual gorgeousness. If you’ve ever wondered how Atticus Finch might have turned out if he were born in the untamed West and raised by an absolute bastard, here’s your chance. Apparently I didn’t hear it over the sound of my own drooling. Wait what? Okay I’m being told his name was actually Lewt McCanles. Robert Walker as Bruno in Strangers on a Train. Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt. And Gregory Peck as Smokin’ McHottie in Duel in the Sun. ![]() There’s always that little extra something when a nice guy plays a villain. Nice Guy! Gregory Peck Swaggers to a DUEL IN THE SUN ![]()
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