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Yellow Sky
Yellow Sky

Yellow Sky

1948 98 min ★ 7.0 Western

In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.

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Cast

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

James "Stretch" Dawson

Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter

Constance Mae 'Mike'

Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

Dude

Robert Arthur

Robert Arthur

Bull Run

John Russell

John Russell

Lengthy

Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan

Half Pint

James Barton

James Barton

Grandpa

Charles Kemper

Charles Kemper

Walrus

Carlos Acosta

Indian (uncredited)

Robert Adler

Robert Adler

Jed (uncredited)

Details

Director

William A. Wellman

Screenplay

Lamar Trotti

Tagline

"It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Revenue

$2,800,000

Production

20th Century Fox

Reviews

J

John Chard

March 17, 2019

★ 9/10

Stay away from my men, and stop swinging those damn hips all over the place. Stretch is the leader of bank robbing desperadoes, after their latest job they find the US Cavalry hot on their tail. Their only conceivable route of escape is to traipse over an enormous salt flat, low on water and bitten by the scorching sun, they happen to come across a ghost town named Yellow Sky. Here was once a ...

W

Wuchak

January 2, 2022

★ 8/10

_**Lost men in the Old West willing to kill over lucre and lust**_ In 1867, a band of bank robbers (Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, Harry Morgan, etc.) flee through the salt flats of the desert Southwest and stumble into a ghost town inhabited only by an old prospector and his comely tomboy granddaughter (James Barton & Anne Baxter). Life-or-death conflicts ensue. “Yellow Sky” (1948) is a top...

C

CinemaSerf

July 9, 2022

★ 7/10

Gregory Peck ("Stretch") leads a miscreant gang of bank robbers, who are chased by a troop of army cavalry into a deserted gold mining town that's occupied only by a young (and pretty) Anne Baxter ("Mike") and her grandfather James Barton. Desperately thirsty after their trudge across the salt flats, the men are soon suitably revivified - body and soul - and set their sights on this young lady, an...

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