Big Country, The

Included are filmed interviews with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston and Billy Wilder, plus other rememberences, behind-the-scenes featurette, Fun In The Big Country and still archive.

Based on the novel by Donald Hamilton, William Wyler’s The Big Country stars Gregory Peck as Jim McKay, a peace loving gentleman who moves west to be with his fiancé, Patricia Terrill (Carroll Baker), and meet her family. He is quick to learn that Pat’s father, Major Terrill (Charles Bickford) and his men, and Rufus Hannassey (Burl Ives) and his sons have been feuding for years over a slice of land known as the Big Muddy, owned by a neutral friend Julie Maragon (Jean Simmons). The two families see no other way around their problem except fighting and don’t listen to McKay’s reasonable way of solving it—until it’s almost too late.