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Yellow Sky is a american film of genre Action directed by William A. Wellman released in USA on 24 december 1948 with Gregory Peck
Yellow Sky (1948)
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Add to a movie listYellow Sky is a 1948 American western film directed by William A. Wellman. The story is believed to be loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. A band of reprobate outlaws flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town.
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In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman called "Mike" (Anne Baxter) by her prospector grandfather (played by James Barton). Stretch is attracted to Mike. While the men recover from their ordeal, Dude (Richard Widmark) snoops around. Dude tells the others that the old man is mining gold, but Stretch is unimpressed. The next day, Mike and Grandpa take to the hills. A confrontation between Stretch and Dude over the leadership of the gang is interrupted by Mike shooting at them. However, when Grandpa is hit in the leg by a ricochet, Mike surrenders.Actors
Gregory Peck
(James "Stretch" Dawson)
Anne Baxter
(Constance Mae 'Mike')
Richard Widmark
(Dude)
Victor Kilian
(Bartender (uncredited))
John Russell
(Lengthy)
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