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The Big Sky  /  Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star
July 17, 2016 - 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

The Big Sky  (1952)


This stirring "Eastern Western" set along the Missouri River in 1832, The Big Sky finds Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) encountering a group of fur traders traveling upriver to trade with Blackfeet Indians there.  Douglas, one member of a fascinating ensemble cast, brings dimension to the sprawling adventure story, both in action sequences and in lyrical passages (often by a campfire) dealing with friendship, nature and love.

35mm, b/w, 120 min.  DIR: Howard Hawks.  SCR: Dudley Nichols.  CAST: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt, Arthur Hunnicutt.

Man Without a Star  (1955)


Cowboy-drifter Dempsey (Kirk Douglas) accepts work on a vast cattle ranch, owned by a beautiful female rancher (Jeanne Crain) with a megalomaniacal desire to expand her territory.  She employs Dempsey as a strongman and part-time lover, as competing ranchers defend their traditional grazing lands by stringing barbed-wire fences (Dempsey's great hate).  Struggles ensue on the plains and in the boudoir in King Vidor's Western potboiler.

35mm, color, 89 min.  DIR: King Vidor.  SCR: Borden Chase, D.D. Beauchamp.  CAST: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell.

Part of: 
Kirk Douglas: A Centennial Celebration