Duel in the Sun (1946 Box Office Champ)

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the box-office champion, King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun. Directed by King Vidor and starring Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish and Lionel Barrymore, Duel in the Sun was producer David O. Selznick’s effort to match his success and acclaim with Gone With the Wind. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1947/05/08/ar..., William Brogdon in Variety (https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews..., and Edwin Schallert in the Los Angeles Times. Check out more info and the entire archive of past episodes at https://www.awesomemovieyear.com and visit us on Facebook at   / awesomemovieyear   You can find Jason on Facebook at   / jharriscomedy  , on Instagram at   / jasonharriscomedy   and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goforjason/ You can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at   / joshbellhateseverything  , on Bluesky at signalbleed.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/signalbleed/ If you’re a Letterboxd user and you watch any of the movies we talk about on the show, tag your review “Awesome Movie Year” to share your thoughts. You can find our producer David Rosen and his Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com (https://www.piecingpod.com/) , on Twitter at @piecingpod (  / piecingpod  ) , on Bluesky at piecingpod.bsky.social and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/bydavidrosen/ Join the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook group at   / piecingpod   for more movie discussion and our Awesome Movie Year audience choice polls. All of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.com (https://www.bydavidrosen.com/) Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year and Piecing It Together, plus music by David Rosen:   / bydavidrosen   Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1946 episode, with our pick for a notable debut feature, Ingmar Bergman’s Crisis.