Friday 23 August 2013

Not a tempest

Yellow Sky (1948)

Directed by William A. Wellman this film stars Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter and Richard Widmark. A gang of bank robbers come across a young woman and her grandfather in a deserted town silver rush town.

Allegedly the plot of this film was inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest but it is a real stretch to find any link between the two. The plot is fairly basic genre fare and works pretty well although I think the early parts of the film do not hint enough at the main characters need to change so it does sort of come out of nowhere. Mostly the film is well made with the occasional piece of interesting photography but it is more the odd moment that stands out rather than being an exceptional looking film.


3/5

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