The Big Sky (1952) | |
| Director(s) | Howard Hawks |
| Producer(s) | Howard Hawks, Edward Lasker (associate) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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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).
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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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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.
Jim Deakins: Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky.
Zeb Calloway: A man leaves when he ain't got nothin' to stay for.
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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.
Jim Deakins: Sure is big country. The only thing bigger is the sky.
Zeb Calloway: A man leaves when he ain't got nothin' to stay for.
read more quotes from The Big Sky...
