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The Big Country (1958)

NR09/30/1958Drama, Western, Romance2h 46m

Big they fought! Big they loved! Big their story!

Overview

Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Gregory Peck

    James McKay

  2. Cast 1

    Jean Simmons

    Julie Maragon

  3. Cast 1

    Carroll Baker

    Patricia Terrill

  4. Cast 1

    Charlton Heston

    Steve Leech

  5. Cast 1

    Burl Ives

    Rufus Hannassey

  6. Cast 1

    Charles Bickford

    Major Henry Terrill

  7. Cast 1

    Alfonso Bedoya

    Ramón Guiteras

  8. Cast 1

    Chuck Connors

    Buck Hannassey

  9. Chuck Hayward

    Rafe Hannassey

I'm not going to go on living in the middle of a civil war. Retired sea Captain James McKay (Gregory Peck) arrives in the sprawling land of the West to marry fiancée Patricia Terrill (Carroll Baker). With an amiable, almost pacifistic approach to life, McKay confounds the ranchers he is now mixing with. Particularly the Terrill ranch foreman Steve Leech (Charlton Heston) who takes an immediate dislike to him. Not only that but it seems that James has landed right in the middle of a family rivalry between the Terrill's and the Hannassey's: just as it's about to fully ignite into war. Dir...