Rating: NR
Genre:
Western
Release Date: 03/20/2001
SubTitles: French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 167 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM
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
