| Yellow Sky | |
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Screenplay by | Lamar Trotti |
| Based on | Yellow Sky unpublished novel by W.R. Burnett |
| Produced by | Lamar Trotti |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Richard Widmark Anne Baxter |
| Cinematography | Joseph MacDonald |
| Edited by | Harmon Jones |
| Music by | Alfred Newman |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.8 million[1] |
Yellow Sky is a 1948 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, and Anne Baxter. The story is believed to be loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Tempest.[2] The screenplay concerns a band of reprobate outlaws who flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town.
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. January 4, 1950. p. 59.
- ^ Howard, Tony (2007). "Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots". In Jackson, Russell (ed.). The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on film. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 303–23. ISBN 978-0-521-68501-6.