
Yellow Sky
It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!
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Release Date
12/24/1948Runtime
98 minsOverview
In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
-Revenue
$2,800,000Homepage
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A taut western where cornered criminals are pushed into moral reckoning by circumstance and isolation. Fate and proximity force unexpected depths from desperate men in a forsaken place.
Mood
TenseWistfulContemplativeBleak
Themes
SurvivalIsolationRedemptionComing apart
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrastWidescreen epic
Structure
Single location
Heads up
Graphic violence

Gregory Peck
James "Stretch" Dawson

Anne Baxter
Constance Mae 'Mike'

Richard Widmark
Dude

Robert Arthur
Bull Run

John Russell
Lengthy

Harry Morgan
Half Pint

James Barton
Grandpa

Charles Kemper
Walrus
Carlos Acosta
Indian (uncredited)

Robert Adler
Jed (uncredited)
Ray Beltram
Indian (uncredited)

Harry Carter
Cavalry Lieutenant (uncredited)
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