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By Dave Kehr (1,442) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 24 Jan 2020

Godawful allegorical western from the height of the cold war (1958), with lanky Yankee Gregory Peck caught between two superpower ranchers…

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By Crosby Day (24) for Orlando Sentinel (1,594) on 20 Jan 2019

Although the story – based on Donald Hamilton’s novel, with Jessamyn West and Robert Wyler credited with the screen adaptation – is dwarfed…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 16 Jun 2018

An excellent Western…

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By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 13 Jul 2015

William Wyler’s sprawling Western about iron-willed ranchers squabbling over desirable land, The Big Country, is one of the prime wide-screen…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Apr 2012

Burl Ives won the Supporting Actor Oscar for playing a patriarch in William Wyler's sprawling, overlong Western, though the award also might…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 11 May 2010

Overblown western meant to debunk the western myth…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Video-Reviewmaster.com (514) on 17 Feb 2008

Wide open-spaced mega western, full of stars, color, and a great Jerome Moross score…

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By John Hartl (735) for The Seattle Times (964) on 12 Apr 1999

For all this film's mighty pretensions, it does not get far beneath the skin of its conventional Western situation and its stock Western characters…

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By Clayton Dillard (209) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 1987

Although The Best Years of Our Lives remains Wyler’s most essential assessment of the American psyche, The Big Country is stunning for how…

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Film critics gave The Big Country (1958) an average score of 70%, indicating generally positive reviews.

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