Pursued
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Date: January 01, 1947 to December 31, 1947
Dates Note: 1947
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Additional Info:
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the AFI/NEA Film Preservation Grants Program.
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In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the CityDescription:
This indisputably greatest of noir Westerns sets its dark storyline under cinematographer James Wong Howe’s oppressive clouds and menacing cliffs. Freudian psychodrama and fated family tragedy, Pursued revolves around the brooding performance of Robert Mitchum, haunted by a childhood nightmare of spurs and gunshots. The flashback structure finds Mitchum in turn-of-the-century New Mexico, beset by the return of a one-armed nemesis (Dean Jagger) and by his love-hate relations with his steely foster mother (Judith Anderson) and foster sister (Teresa Wright). The passion in Niven Busch’s script for Pursued recalls the adaptation of his novel Duel in the Sun.
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