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A reformed gunfighter returns to a woman he had abandoned years earlier. She is now the proprietor of a gambling saloon opened in anticipation of the arrival of the railroad and in the face of hostile opposition from the local townspeople. The film’s bizarre, even baroque, intensity derives in part from the central antagonism between two women (virtually unique in the western), and in Yordan and Ray’s expressed intention of seeking an anti-McCarthy parable.
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ACMI Identifier
311321
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Blacklisting of entertainers - United States
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Blacklisting of entertainers - United States
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)