Yellow Sky

"It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!"

Dec 24 1948 Approved 1h 38m

Crime, Western

In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson 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 named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".

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Plot

A band of bank robbers on the run from a posse flee into the desert. Near death from lack of water they stumble into what appears to be a ghost town, only to discover an old prospector and his granddaughter living there. The robbers discover that the old man has been mining gold and set out to make a quick fortune by robbing the pair. Their plan runs foul when the gang leader, Stretch, falls for the granddaughter, which sets off a showdown between the entire gang.

Written by

Lamar Trotti, W.R. Burnett, Jacques Monteux

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Cast

Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins

Trailers

Yellow Sky Trailer

Featurettes

John Sayles on YELLOW SKY

Scores

# of Votes

6,023

Average Rating

7.4 out of 10

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