FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Big Country
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer100%as of 2026-01-16
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.1/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic61/100as of 2026-01-16
What it is
The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, and starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Charles Bickford. The supporting cast features Burl Ives and Chuck Connors. Filmed in Technicolor and Technirama, the picture was based on the serialized magazine novel Ambush at Blanco Canyon by Donald Hamilton and was co-produced by Wyler and Peck.
At a glance
- Genres
- Western / Drama
- Original language
- English
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