Release Date: Jun 7, 1961 Wide
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Scripted by Dalton Trumbo and directed by Robert Aldrich, this off-beat, almost eclectic film could be hailed as a thinking person's western. It is the dark cat-and-mouse tale of a sherrif's hunt for a philosophy-spouting criminal in the midst of a great cattle drive. The outlaw killed the sherrif's brother-in-law. During his flight, the outlaw pauses long enough to drop by the ranch where his former lover lives with her husband and 16-year-old daughter. While there, the rancher hires him to
Jun 7, 1961 Wide
Nov 14, 2006
Universal Pictures
All Critics (6) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (0) | DVD (3)
Forget about Freudian Westerns - this one owes more to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
A lyrical offbeat Western filled with Sirkian melodrama.
Sunny western with very dark themes and good performances.
August 17, 2008
Super Reviewer
Belle: To me, it always seems like it's the women who keep on living. Men kill or get killed and women bury them. We're professional survivors. Kirk Douglas plays a gunslinger Brendan O'Malley who runs into an old lover Belle Breckenridge (Dorothy Malone) while being pursued by Texas lawman Dana Stribling (Rock
November 17, 2011
Super Reviewer
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