Movie Information
Overall Rank: 4169
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 13
Theatrical Release Date: 03/02/1947
Language: English
Genre: Western, Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, Harry Carey Jr.
Plot: An orphaned boy is raised by the Callum family after his own family is brutally murdered. Constantly facing the trauma from this past - he connects with some members of the family, while others shun him. -- Chris Kavan
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4/4
Allison - wrote on 06/08/2009
The genres this movie tries to get away with are countless: Noir, western, drama. There's even a musical number that seems out of place. It had the same type of ending as Witness for the Prosecution: it has a shocking reversal that changes everything and makes the film stand tall and unforgotten. This is probably my favorite western. Or at least the best one I've seen.
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3.5/4
"Pursued" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/11/2012
Robert Mitchum plays a rancher who has been stalked since childhood by a one armed man with a grudge, without ever knowing why.The themes of twisted psychology, sibling rivalry, jealousy and revenge presented by shadow steeped photography and narrated by Mitchum who is on top form as the hapless anti-hero who is unwillingly forced to kill by circumstances beyond his control all point to the same thing; I don't care how many stetsons or six guns are on show, this IS Film Noir. The intelligent character driven plot is all very Freudian, which makes for a very unusual hybrid of genres. It looks fantastic and has a solid supporting cast, the pick of which is Judith Anderson as the matriarch whose guilty secret lies at the core of the events Mitchum finds himself caught up in. I'd never heard …
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