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The Big Country is a 1958 American epic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, and Charles Bickford. The supporting cast features Burl Ives and Chuck Connors .
Desire Under the Elms (1958) - Ephraim Cabot; Wind Across The Everglades (1958) - Cottonmouth; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - Big Daddy Pollitt; The Big Country (1958) - Rufus Hannassey; Day of the Outlaw (1959) - Jack Bruhn; Our Man in Havana (1959) - Dr. Hasselbacher; Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) - Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
Ives was also a popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s. His film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as the role of Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country (1958), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the film noir Day of the Outlaw (1959).
The film itself was a big hit, finishing fourth at the domestic box office in 1958 [250] and second in the UK. [251] [14] [252] [253] At the time of release, reviews for The Big Country were mixed regarding the producers' prioritization of characterization versus technical filmmaking; opinions on Peck's performance were also disparate.
The story was collected for the first time in 1958, by Dell, as a Dell First Edition B115 paperback, and was reissued many times. In Aug. of 1958, the story was published by Dell Comics, as issue #946 of Dell's long-running showcase anthology Four Color Comics. [1] [2] The Big Country was published in hardcover in the UK in 1958 by Allan Wingate.
The Big Country is a Western novel by Donald Hamilton.It was originally serialized in The Saturday Evening Post as Ambush at Blanco Canyon.Published two years prior to Hamilton's Death of a Citizen, which launched his popular Matt Helm series, it explores many of the same themes of self-reliance that dominated the author's work.
Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) [1] was an American actor known for supporting roles. [2] He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and Johnny Belinda (1948).
He was prominent in The Big Country (1958), co-produced by Peck. He was known as "Good Chuck" in contrast to "Bad Chuck", in reference to Chuck Roberson , another of Wayne's stunt doubles. He graduated into stunt coordination, arranging the stunts in films such as The Deadly Companions (1961) and the TV series The Rat Patrol .