The big country
(2001, original release: 1958)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/WESTERN/BIG

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/WESTERN/BIG Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
079284923X 1001591, 027616859013
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.35:1)

A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958

"From the novel by Donald Hamilton."

Includes the original theatrical trailer

Director of photography, Franz F. Planer ; music, Jerome Moross ; supervising editor, Robert Swink

Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors, Alfonso Bedoya

Not rated by MPAA

DVD

English or French language soundtrack (mono) with optional subtitles in French and Spanish ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Ives), 1959

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