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Quick Flick – The Big Country

by Hans|Published June 20, 2010

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The Big Country (1958) Drama/Romance/Western 165 min.
Dir: William Wyler Stars: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford
Blurb: An eastern sea captain (Peck) navigates an independent course in a range war involving the father (Bickford) of his fiancee (Baker), a rival rancher (Ives), and the school teacher whose property is caught in between (Simmons).
Comments: A powerful and well integrated drama spiced by one of the all time best movie soundtracks (by Jerome Moross).

AUTHOR

Hans

Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and explains his unique solution to wave particle duality at the Fields & Energy Substack.

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