The Big Country [PG]

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Sunday - May 11 - 7:30 PM - 166 minutes

Single feature

1958

Technicolor CinemaScope print

Director: William Wyler

Starring: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston

Two ranchers feud over water rights in this epic-scale western. Heston plays the ranch foreman and Burl Ives is the domineering patriarch (for which he won an Oscar). Jerome Moross' music score has become instantly recognisable. (PN) With Carroll Baker, Chuck Connors. BIG Country on the Astor's BIG screen. Couldn't be better!

Part of The Astor Showcase - A Fistful of Westerns.

Rating: ****

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