1946 - DUEL IN THE SUN, poor man's version of Gone With The Wind.

David O Selznick's attempt at another large scale technicolor film centered around his obsession with Jennifer Jones.  This film has been described as a "stupid sex western" by the godfather of film capsule reviewers, Leonard Maltin and that about sums it up.

Selznick called all the shots during filming irritating the director King Vidor who finally walked off the set.  Selznick hired the best talent in Hollywood and it shows, the film is gorgeous to look at in 1940's technicolor.  The chief problem was the mess of a script which Selznick also took credit for.  Duel in the Sun effectively ends around the one hour mark, however Selznick sticks in a series of disconnected subplots in the second half which brings this sucker in at over two hours.   

Selznick seemed to think that Jennifer Jones was the hottest woman in Hollywood but her supposedly sexy emoting and withering is pretty ludicrous.  Jennifer Jones was capable of giving decent understated performances, but the va va va boom stuff was really beyond her range.

Martin Scorcese counts Duel in the Sun as a seminal film for him for what that's worth

145 minutes, screenplay by David O. Selznick.