Remember MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER, also from the same director starring this time Tyrone Power, or also Henry Levin's GAMBLER FROM NATCHEZ; all those films have the common point to take place in Louisiana, Mississippi during the nineteenth century and involving riverboats, more or les French speaking people, gamblers, duels with old fashioned pistols, in a field, at dawn. This movie is the most western oriented of those three. It is purely in the Universal style, which is not so far from the Paramount one, colourful, romance provider, action packed.... Tony Curtis was the glamourous star here for his "home" company: Universal.
Review of The Rawhide Years
