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Actors: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, Elizabeth Threatt
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Big Sky |
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Jim Deakins and Boone Caudill (main and secondary main character) meet and become friends. In search of adventure and money they join Boone's uncle Zeb, a fur trapper about to lead a French expedition to the regions of the upper Missouri. The head of the expedition has bought Teal Eye,a princess of the Black Fleet tribe, from captivity; using her as a token of friendship he hopes to make good money with the Black Feet and overthrow the monopoly of the fur trading company.
They go up river, molested by the trading company's agents. Jim and Boone both fall in love with the Indian girl, yet Boone also displays some hatred against the Indians.
Several adventures later(Indian raid, ambush by company agents, kidnapping of Teal Eye, wounding of Deakins) they reach the Black Feet and are greeted. Jim and Boone even solve their rivalry for Teal Eye. Boone stays and marries her, Jim will return with next year's expedition.
--Volker van Haren, Resident Scholar
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THE BIG SKY is a movie produced and directed by Howard Hawks in 1952. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Saint Louis, 1832. Kirk Douglas, a frontierman, meets the young and wild Dewey Martin who is looking for his uncle. They find him in the local prison and decide to join him and Frenchy, a riverboat captain, in their project to journey up the Missouri river to the friendly Black Feet indians in order to trade furs. With a dozen courageous men and Teal Eye, a Black Feet princess who should be an asset in their expedition, they begin a 2000 miles journey. But the almighty Fur Trade Organisation would like to stop this project and tries to kidnap Teal Eye and then, having failed, persuades the Crows indians to attack the boat. Meanwhile, both Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin, fall in love with Teal Eye who will choose one of them as her husband when they all finally arrive in Montana.
Strange western with more character development than pure action. A classic of the genre.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- Good white men fighting wicked Indians
- traveling across the west
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cowboy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- American Indian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- a criminal organization
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- trader
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- swimming on
- river
Misc setting
- prison
- fort/military installation
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- encouraged
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Check here if B&W
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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