Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Director King Vidor disliked the scene where villainous Gregory Peck's character blows up a train, killing its crew. However, producer David O. Selznick insisted it stay in the final cut.
Lewt McCanles:
You double-crossin' bobcat.
Helen's hand goes from the banister to her side when Pearl says she is glad that Helen and Jesse are bespoken.
The original "roadshow" version ran 144 minutes. The additional 16 minutes, over the commonly-shown 128 minute version, consisted of a musical "prelude," an "overture" (which contained a spoken prologue, by Reed Hadley), and exit music, but no additional scenes in the film. The two additional opening sequences were each inadvertently given the other's label.
English
$20,408,163 (USA)