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The Big Sky (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Howard Hawks

Written By:
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Dudley Nichols

Actors:
Kirk Douglas ..... Jim Deakins
Dewey Martin ..... Boone Caudill
Elizabeth Threatt ..... Teal Eye (Blackfoot princess)
Arthur Hunnicutt ..... Zeb Calloway / Narrator
Buddy Baer ..... Romaine
Steven Geray ..... 'Frenchy' Jourdonnais (riverboat captain)
Henri Letondal ..... La Badie
Hank Worden ..... Poordevil
Jim Davis ..... Streak
Louise Worden ..... Indian villager

Synopsis:

The Big Sky is based on a popular novel by A.B. Guthrie. Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin play a pair of Kentucky frontiersmen who embark upon the first keelboat trip up the Missouri River way back in 1830. Joining Douglas and Martin are Martin's grizzled old uncle Arthur Hunnicutt and garrulous Frenchman Steven Geray. Running afoul of various Indian tribes, Douglas nonetheless romances Sioux princess Elizabeth Threatt (their off-screen relationship was on the kinky side, as an embarrassed Douglas reveals in his autobiography). Director Howard Hawks leavens the Boys' Own Adventure atmosphere of the film with a few isolated comic sequences, including a sidesplitting scene in which Douglas' gangrenous finger is cut off. Produced for RKO Radio by Hawks' own Winchester Pictures, The Big Sky was released at 141 minutes, though the TV print runs 122 minutes.

Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of furs from friendly Blackfoot Indians. The problem is that they have to get through hostile Indian territory first and they find that they have seriously underestimated the difficulties they will undergo. The large body of men who started the journey are gradually whittled down until only a hardy few, like Deakins, are left.

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