---
title: 'Yellow Sky (1948)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William A. Wellman'
released: '1948-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/yellow-sky-1948'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040978/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Yellow Sky (1948)

1948 · 96 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

Yellow Sky is a 1948 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Widmark, and Anne Baxter. Based on an unpublished novel by W. R. Burnett, believed to be loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the plot concerns a band of reprobate outlaws who flee after a bank robbery and encounter an old man and his granddaughter in a ghost town.

## Credits

- **Director:** [William A. Wellman](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-a-wellman)
- **Screenplay:** [Lamar Trotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/lamar-trotti), [W. R. Burnett](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-r-burnett)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-macdonald)
- **Editor:** [Harmon Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/harmon-jones)

## Cast

- [Anne Baxter](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-baxter)
- [Gregory Peck](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-peck)
- [Robert Arthur Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-arthur-jr)
- [John Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-russell)
- [James Edward Barton](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-edward-barton)
- [Richard Widmark](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-widmark)
- [Charles Kemper](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-kemper)
- [Harry Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-morgan)
- [Chief Yowlachie](https://cinepixo.com/people/chief-yowlachie)

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