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Duel in the Sun
Drama, Romance, Western
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy heightened historical melodrama, volatile love triangles, and sweeping landscapes framing destructive passions.
- Tone
- romantic, bleak, epic
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- forbidden desire, family conflict, racial prejudice, land power, moral corruption
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century frontier, sprawling ranches and expanding railroad country