The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 81% of the 101 1940s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
198 audience votes
Key crew
- David O. SelznickScreenplay
- King VidorDirector
- Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer
- Ben HechtWriter
Cast
- Jennifer JonesPearl Chavez
- Joseph CottenJesse McCanles
- Gregory PeckLewton "Lewt" McCanles
- Lionel BarrymoreSen. Jackson McCanles
- Herbert MarshallScott Chavez
- Lillian GishLaura Belle McCanles
- Walter HustonThe Sinkiller
- Charles BickfordSam Pierce
- Harry CareyLem Smoot
- Joan TetzelHelen Langford
- Tilly LoschMrs. Chavez
- Butterfly McQueenVashti
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Themes
rapesexual obsessiondeath of fatherwoman between two menbrother against brotherskinny dippingfamilyoverbearing fatheroppositesbiracialwardcattle baron