Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Dec 31, 1957 Wide
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan (Dean Jagger) knuckling under to her demands. One day, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan), a one-time gunfighter turned United States
Dec 31, 1957 Wide
May 24, 2005
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Fuller's comic book world is a complete artistic creation, a place where men were MEN and women could take a bullet now and then.
Here is Sam Fuller in top gear, as writer, director and producer, with a Western that is solidly crafted and brilliantly cast. Barbara Stanwyck is at her peak, although her peak lasted decades
... sexual energy and psychotic violence that explodes onscreen in staccato editing, darting camerawork, and the maddest expressions of love this side of Duel in the Sun.
A shoddy presentation of a great film.
Stanwyck, by turns imperious and sly, dominates the movie.
Stanwyck is as stunning and fiery as she was all the way back in Baby Face (1933), and she helps make this one of the best Westerns of its day.
Quintessential American action cinema.
As brash, unsubtle, and pointed as Fuller's best work.
One wacky-doodlely Freudian Western."She's a high ridin' woman with a whip . . . But if someone could break her and take her whip away, Someone big, someone strong, someone tall,You may find that the woman with a whip ...is only a woman after all.""Get a doctor. She'll live."
February 8, 2009Super Reviewer
Great western with some really nice unexpected twists. Love that gun barrel shot. Looks like Sam Fuller beat James Bond to the punch.
May 7, 2007Super Reviewer
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