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Yellow Sky

Yellow Sky

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 24, 1948

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Crime, Western

User Score

69%

Original Title

Yellow Sky

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

William A. Wellman

Description

In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson robs a bank and flees into the desert. Out of water, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a hostile young woman named Mike and her grandpa. The story is a Western adaptation of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".