YELLOW SKY (1948) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: William Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark,
John Russell, Harry Morgan, Robert Arthur
A gang of outlaws with names like Stretch, Dude, Half Pint and Lengthy escape across 70 miles of salt flats following a bank robbery, and literally stumble into a ghost town whose only inhabitants are a crusty old prospector and his shapely but trigger-happy granddaughter. It's the casting that elevates this one, with Peck as the gang's morally ambiguous leader and Widmark as the guy whose morals (or lack of them) aren't ambiguous at all. Wellman's approach to the final shootout is real interesting.
