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The Big Country
Synopsis
In The Big Country Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo overload at the Bickford spread, settling for a romance with headstrong schoolmarm Jean Simmons, whose water-rich lands are being fought over by the two warring ranchers. When Jean is kidnapped by Ives' no-good son Chuck Connors, Peck decides to take action.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    William Wyler,
  • Writer:
    James R. Webb, Robert Wilder, Sy Bartlett,
  • Producer:
    Robert Wyler, William Wyler, Gregory Peck,
  • Cinematographer:
    Franz Planer,
  • Editor:
    John Faure, Robert Belcher,
  • Cast:
    Jean Simmons, Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker,
  • Associate Producer:
    Robert Wyler,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Hal Ashby,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Ray Gosnell Jr., Robert Templeton,
  • Camera Operator:
    Fred Mandl, Eddie Garvin,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Robert Gary, Sam Freedle,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Del Harris, Harry Alphin,
  • Casting:
    Dorothy Whitney,
  • Adaptation:
    Robert Wyler, Jessamyn West,
  • Special Effects:
    Al Gonzales,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Harry Maret, Dan Greenway,
  • Second Unit Director:
    John Waters, Robert Swink,
  • Hairstylist:
    Gale McGarry, Joan St. Oegger,
  • Stunts:
    Bill Babcock, John McKee, Chuck Hayward, Jim Burk, Chuck Roberson, Slim Pickens, Buff Brady, Hal Needham, Bob Morgan, Slim Talbot, Donna Hall,
  • Sound Recordist:
    Roger Heman Sr., John K. Kean,
  • Stunt Double:
    Martha Crawford,
  • Assistant Director:
    Ivan Volkman,
  • Title Graphics:
    Saul Bass,
  • Gaffer:
    Harry Sundby,
  • Novel:
    Donald Hamilton,
  • Orchestrator:
    Alexander Courage, Gil Grau, Conrad Salinger, Bernard Mayers,
  • Set Costumer:
    Neva Rames,
  • Second Unit:
    Robert Swink,
  • Screenplay:
    Sy Bartlett, Robert Wilder, James R. Webb,
  • Costume Design:
    Yvonne Wood, Emile Santiago,
  • Supervising Film Editor:
    Robert Swink,
  • Choreographer:
    Carey Leverette,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Jerome Moross,
  • Art Direction:
    Frank Hotaling,
  • Key Grip:
    John Livesley,
  • Set Decoration:
    Edward G. Boyle,

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