Huston and Stanwyck are loving but constantly battling father and daughter running the biggest ranch in New Mexico which Huston says is hers when he dies. Matters are complicated though by her friendship with Mexican Gilbert Roland, who Huston considers a trespasser, her love for slippery entrepreneur Wendell Corey and Huston's attraction to potentially money grabbing Judith Anderson.
Not as epic as say The Big Country, but the scale of the drama and the various stories that hold this together make it feel like it is, driven primarily by the tour de force performances and star power of the 2 leads. Dramatic, sometimes quite brutal western with a sharp, witty script that pulls you along nicely until the inevitable climatic scenes between the 2.
Not as epic as say The Big Country, but the scale of the drama and the various stories that hold this together make it feel like it is, driven primarily by the tour de force performances and star power of the 2 leads. Dramatic, sometimes quite brutal western with a sharp, witty script that pulls you along nicely until the inevitable climatic scenes between the 2.