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Duel in the Sun Series: Saint and Sinner: The Tempestuous Career of Jennifer Jones [May 16 – 24] Director: King Vidor, Country: USA, Release: 1946, Runtime: 140 “A picture so ablaze in libidinous hues that set visitor Michael Powell speculated one sunset sequence alone ‘must have emptied the Technicolor dye vats for several months.’” - Bruce Bennett, The New York Sun “A whopping example of filmmaking in the grand manner, florid and inflated, with a lurid climax that's one of the most excessive sequences ever filmed in Hollywood.” - Elliott Stein, The Village Voice “An even more hysterical western than Johnny Guitar!” – Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York All screenings preceded by rarely seen Josef von Sternberg silent screen tests of Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck. Running time: 9 min 26 sec In 1945 before Duel in the Sun started shooting, David O. Selznick hired Josef von Sternberg to shoot the make-up and wardrobe tests of Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck. He wanted a Dietrich-like sultriness for Jones and a seductiveness for Peck rather like the look personified by Dietrich and Gary Cooper in Morocco. The purpose was for King Vidor, his cinematographer and costume and makeup people to get an idea of what was in his mind. Big, brawling, engrossing and bizarre, Duel in the Sun was David O. Selznick’s bid for a repeat success after his bonanza Gone with the Wind, this time with Jennifer Jones starring as the torrid Pearl Chavez. While nothing can match Wind for grandeur and romance, Duel in the Sun is remarkable in its own way, “a lavish, sensual spectacle, so heightened it becomes a cartoon of passion,” as Pauline Kael wrote. The story, based on the “hot” novel by Niven Busch, captures the feuding McCanleses, a ranching family headed by patriarch Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) and his long-suffering wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish). King Vidor infuses the expansive story with an undercurrent of social realism—the tyranny of an older generation and the irresponsibility of the new–– while the shoot-out finale still astonishes with its operatic intensity. An uncredited Josef von Sternberg also provided ideas, and, needless to say, Selznick’s thumbprint is omnipresent: Cruelty and passion go hand in hand in this strangely affecting and delirious romantic western affectionately (and derisively) labeled “Lust in the Dust.” Co-starring Gregory Peck as the spoiled Lewt; Joseph Cotten as Jesse, the upstanding son; and Walter Huston in an amusing cameo as The Sinkiller.

Buy Tickets Fri May 16: 8:30* *Intro by Edward Z. Epstein, author of Portrait of Jennifer: A Biography of Jennifer Jones. Wed May 21: 3:30* *Intro by Daniel Selznick