
The Searchers(1956)
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.


“It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!”
In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.

Gregory Peck
James "Stretch" Dawson

Anne Baxter
Constance Mae 'Mike'

Richard Widmark
Dude

Robert Arthur
Bull Run

John Russell
Lengthy

Harry Morgan
Half Pint

James Barton
Grandpa

Charles Kemper
Walrus
Carlos Acosta
Indian (uncredited)

Robert Adler
Jed (uncredited)
Yellow Sky is a western film released in 1948 exploring themes of bank robber, desert, ghost town, 19th century, 1860s. Directed by William A. Wellman, it stars Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark. In 1867, a gang robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws encounter a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman and her grandfather.
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