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    Big Country, The (1958)

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    William Wyler’s last Western was filmed on a grand scale, in widescreen and almost three hours long.

    James McKay (Gregory Peck) is the mild-mannered easterner, come west to marry a ranch lord’s daughter and getting caught up in a feud between the would-be patrician rancher and his ruffian neighbours.

    Wyler’s use of the landscape is grandiose, satirising the attempts of westerners to match their surroundings with equally outsized gestures; an allegory of the Cold War isn’t hard to find.

    Charlton Heston, Burl Ives and Jean Simmons head a rich supporting cast, and Jerome Moss contributes one of the all-time great movie scores.

    The US President at the time, Dwight D. Eisenhower, screened the movie four times consecutively at the White House and called it “simply the best film ever made. My number one favourite film.”

    James McKay
    Gregory Peck
    Julie Maragon
    Jean Simmons
    Patricia Terrill
    Carroll Baker
    Steve Leech
    Charlton Heston
    Rufus Hannassey
    Burl Ives
    Maj. Henry Terrill
    Charles Bickford
    Ramón Gutierrez
    Alfonso Bedoya
    Buck Hannassey
    Chuck Connors
    Rafe Hannassey
    Chuck Hayward
    Dude Hannassey
    Buff Brady
    Blackie/Cracker Hannassey
    Jim Burk
    Hannassey Woman
    Dorothy Adams

    Director
    William Wyler

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