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Feb 23, 2024 · In “Yellow Sky” (1948), a gang of outlaws led by the tough yet honorable Stretch (Gregory Peck) stumbles upon a ghost town in Death Valley after a bank robbery gone wrong. Seeking refuge, they encounter an old prospector, Grandpa (James Barton), and his feisty granddaughter, Mike (Anne Baxter).
In 1867, in the West, the gang of bank robbers led by James "Stretch" Dawson and formed by Dude, Bull Run, Lengthy, Half Pint, Walrus and Jed flee after robbing a bank. However, they are hunted down by the cavalry and Jed is killed. They decide to cross desert and the soldiers stop chasing them.
Severely dehydrated, the outlaws eventually come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky, where a woman named Mike surprises them and holds them at gunpoint but tells them of a spring nearby.
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".
Starring Gregory Peck Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan, Jame...
May 4, 2016 · Charles Kemper. An email you’ll actually love. A fine Western, harshly shot by Joe MacDonald in Death Valley locations, inevitably conjuring comparisons with Greed and The Treasure of the Sierra...
Yellow Sky was based on a novel by W.R. Burnett, who moved from westerns to gangster stories and back again with the greatest of ease. Characteristics. Moods. Tough Guys. Themes. Going Straight | Righting the Wronged | Bank Robbery | Prospectors and Land Rights | Treasure Hunts. Keywords.
