The Big Sky (1952) |
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| Director(s) | Howard Hawks |
| Producer(s) | Howard Hawks, Edward Lasker |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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Kirk Douglas(as Jim Deakins)
The Big Sky
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Kirk Douglas
(as Jim Deakins)
Arthur Hunnicutt(as Zeb Calloway / Narrator)
The Big Sky
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Arthur Hunnicutt
(as Zeb Calloway / Narrato...)
Steven Geray(as 'Frenchy' Jourdonnais)
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Steven Geray
(as 'Frenchy' Jourdonnais)
Hank Worden(as Poordevil)
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Hank Worden
(as Poordevil)
Jim Davis(as Streak)
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The Big Sky
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1952
Jim Davis
(as Streak)
Don Beddoe(as Horse Trader)
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Don Beddoe
(as Horse Trader)
Paul Frees(as Louis MacMasters)
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Paul Frees
(as Louis MacMasters)
Jay Novello(as Trapper)
The Big Sky
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1952
The Big Sky
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1952
Jay Novello
(as Trapper)
The Big Sky Overview:
The Big Sky (1952) was a Drama - Western Film directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hawks and Edward Lasker.
SYNOPSIS
Hawks adventure with a strong performance by Douglas as a Kentucky mountaineer who embarks on a keelboat expedition up the Missouri River in the 1830s. The perilous journey includes battles with hostile Indians and bands of outlaws - and romance with a Blackfoot princess. Pleasant frontier myth-making based on the novel by A.B. Guthrie, the poet of America's westward expansion.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
Academy Awards 1952 --- Ceremony Number 25 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Supporting Actor | Arthur Hunnicutt | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | Russell Harlan | Nominated |
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The Big Sky Quotes:
Zeb Calloway:
Keep you eyes open. If you see anything, shoot. Don't bother to aim because you probably couldn't hit nothing no how.
Boone Cardell:
Why did she want to grab this?
Zeb Calloway: That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?
Jim Deakins: Why?
Zeb Calloway: To shame an enemy. The way she figures it, there's a Blackfoot brave somewhere who can't show his face to the hereafter until that thing is buried under the ground.
Zeb Calloway: That's a Blackfoot scalp you got, and she knows it. Ain't you ever thought of why an injun takes a scalp?
Jim Deakins: Why?
Zeb Calloway: To shame an enemy. The way she figures it, there's a Blackfoot brave somewhere who can't show his face to the hereafter until that thing is buried under the ground.
Zeb Calloway:
A man leaves when he ain't got nothin' to stay for.
Jim Deakins:
[Watching Boone play with the Indian scalp and annoyed with him for leaving Teal-Eye] Playing with that scalp again. Whatd'ya give him that fer? That were a fool thing to do.
Zeb Calloway: Worse than that, whole story were a lie.
Jim Deakins: What!
Zeb Calloway: His brother weren't killed by no injun atall, fell in the river and drowned.
Jim Deakins: Huh... He wouldn't believe that!
Zeb Calloway: Nobody would. I just talk too much.
Zeb Calloway: Worse than that, whole story were a lie.
Jim Deakins: What!
Zeb Calloway: His brother weren't killed by no injun atall, fell in the river and drowned.
Jim Deakins: Huh... He wouldn't believe that!
Zeb Calloway: Nobody would. I just talk too much.
Boone Cardell:
What's the noise about?
Zeb Calloway: They're (Indians) celebrating your wedding.
Boone Cardell: Wedding?
Zeb Calloway: You maybe don't know it, but you're a married man now.
Boone Cardell: Married? And I don't got nothing to say about it?
Zeb Calloway: Wouldn't do you no good to say it.
See More Quotes from The Big SkyZeb Calloway: They're (Indians) celebrating your wedding.
Boone Cardell: Wedding?
Zeb Calloway: You maybe don't know it, but you're a married man now.
Boone Cardell: Married? And I don't got nothing to say about it?
Zeb Calloway: Wouldn't do you no good to say it.
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This is the only film Elizabeth Threatt was ever in.