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In early 1960s Los Angeles a family struggles to make ends meet. Like many who still believe in the American Dream the widowed Frances Kathy Bates wishes to put down roots and find a home. Prideful Frances loses her job and suddenly rootless she takes what little money they have and she and her gaggle of children venture out of the big city and head into rural Idaho.

Dubbed "Lust in the Dust" by Hollywood wags and at 5 million the most expensive film made up to that time DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez a stunning young half-breed. After her father's death she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles Lillian Gish whose husband Senator Lionel Barrymore is a Texas cattle baron of immense wealth. She soons finds herself attracted to the two McCanles sons: the magnetic hell-raiser Lewt Gregory Peck and the educated restrained Jesse Joseph Cotten. Since Pearl is presumed to have inherited her mother's hot-blooded disposition she's tagged as a bad girl by Lewt who quickly makes a pass at her without success. But with Jesse away on business she and Lewt eventually become lovers although she still can't decide which of the two she loves. Meanwhile Senator is embroiled in a dispute over the invasion of his property by railroad interests becoming enraged when Jesse chooses the pen over the shotgun as a negotiating tool. Saturated in sexual innuendo this fabulously overripe overproduced melodrama which constantly teeters on the edge of camp is more than anything else the product of David O. Selznick's megalomaniacal desire to top his earlier epic GONE WITH THE WIND. That said the acting is very good as is Dimitri Tiomkin's score and the crowd scenes are superbly orchestrated.

Starring David Niven and Theresa Wright as two star-crossed lovers whose relationship was never meant to be ENCHANTMENT is a fascinating study in how family fortunes can take a strange yet familiar twist over the years. Niven plays Rollo whose younger days saw him wooing Lark Wright but coming unstuck when faced with her formidable older sister who kept the pair apart. A considerable time passes and Rollo finds that his niece and Lark's nephew are caught up in the throes of a blossoming romance. But with the demands of war threatening to tear the lovers apart Rollo fears history may be about to repeat itself. A taut absorbing drama from 1948 Niven and Wright are at the top of their game throughout.