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Duel in the Sun
UNITED STATES · 1946

Duel in the Sun

King Vidor
forbidden romance racial identity family conflict good versus evil passionate desire
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Synopsis

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

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