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Yellow Sky (1948)

Yellow Sky poster
Directed by
William A. Wellman
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 126 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gang of outlaws flee across a desert after a bank robbery. They come across a ghost town where an old man and his granddaughter live. The outlaws decide to stay and tensions rise.

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What happens

Yellow Sky is a 1948 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, and Anne Baxter. Based on an unpublished novel by W. R. Burnett, believed to be loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the plot concerns a band of reprobate outlaws who flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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