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Duel in the Sun (David O. Selznick; Vanguard) is a knowing blend of oats and aphrodisiac. It is the costliest, the most lushly Technicolored, the most lavishly cast, the loudest ballyhooed, and the sexiest horse opera ever made...
Producer David O. Selznick, who is credited with writing the screenplay himself (from a Niven Busch novel), spent an unprecedented amount of money on this picture (reported to be $6 million, plus $2 million for promotion). By giving moviegoers a sort of super-sumptuous scrapbook of all the titillating, sure-fire elements that experience has convinced him they want, he figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind...
Even The Face herself was amazed. After beautiful and shrewd Anita Colby announced last week that she planned to quit as the $500-a-week maid-of-all-work to Moviemaker David Selznick, she got a score of job offers. They came from other producers in Hollywood, four advertising agencies, three cosmetics companies, two model agencies and assorted department stores, book publishers...
...Rory Calhoun, 24, under contract to David 0. Selznick for two years, is an ex-lumberjack, an ex-boxer. He was "discovered" on a riding ranch. His chief asset: he suggests a younger, more dangerous Victor Mature...
...week's end, while Selznick claimed that Duel's grosses in Los Angeles were running some 25% better than Gone With the Wind, he was still undecided on the next move. "After all," he said hopefully, "the Legion of Decency hasn't even seen the picture and it isn't classified yet. The archbishop merely issued a warning...