Duel in the Sun

The famous and now much-derided seduction scene, as Lewt (Gregory Peck) returns to the ranch to find only Vashti (Butterfly McQueen) between himself and the fiery semi-servant Pearl (Jennifer Jones), producer David O. Selznick's hand much in evidence, in Duel In The Sun, 1947.

Treacherous ranch heir Lewt (Gregory Peck) taunts Pearl (Jennifer Jones), the sexy Mexican-Indian ward of his mother, into riding his horse bare-back, resulting in a raucous chase, with innuendo, in director King Vidor's provocative Duel in The Sun, 1947.

Mixed-race charity case Pearl (Jennifer Jones) at the Texas McCanles ranch, delivered by Jesse (Joseph Cotten), greeted by his mother Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), the Senator (Lionel Barrymore) and lustful brother Lewt (Gregory Peck) in Duel in the Sun, 1947.

Jesse McCanles (Joseph Cotten) finds his principles rankle his father the Senator (Lionel Barrymore) while his mother Laura Belle (Lillian Gish) silently approves in Duel in the Sun, 1947.