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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Big Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford, and Chuck Connors. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Jerome Moross's outstanding musical score, while Ives won the award for Best Supporting Actor.Wealthy, newly retired sea captain James McKay (Peck) travels out to the American West to join his fiancée, Patricia (Baker), at the enormous ranch owned by her father, Major Henry Terrill (Bickford). Terrill has been feuding with Rufus Hannassey (Ives), the patriarch of a poorer, less refined ranching clan, and McKay finds himself caught in the middle of the Terrill-Hannassey feud.McKay—who refuses to be provoked into proving his manhood through violence, having sworn off such behavior since his father died in a meaningless duel—does nothing to stop Hannassey's trouble-making son, Buck (Connors), from harassing him, and he declines a challenge by Terrill's foreman, Steve Leech (Heston), to ride an unruly horse. Patricia, Terrill and Leech consider this to be cowardly in view of the region's lawlessness.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })One morning, McKay rides to the Big Muddy, another ranch which contains access to the area's only river, and is thus coveted by both Terrill and Hannassey. McKay persuades its owner, Julie Maragon (Simmons), to sell him her land by promising to continue her policy of allowing both groups access to the river.Needless to say, his plan doesn't end exactly as he'd hoped...
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 Armor-Piercing Question: Also, McKay delivers one to Leech after the fight that Leech has been trying to provoke all movie ends with nothing more than both men exhausted, battered and roughly evenly matched:
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 Bilingual Dialogue: When McCay and Ramon first meet, the former speaks English and Ramon speaks Spanish. After that first talk, Ramon mostly speaks in English.
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 Betty and Veronica: Julie (Betty) and Patricia (Veronica)
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 Attempted Rape: Of Julie by Buck Hannassey, until his father intervenes.
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