Film Forum

U.S, 1953
Directed by John Farrow
Starring John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond
Approx. 88 min. 3-D DCP.

An unhorsed John Wayne and his dog show up at the remote ranch of husbandless Geraldine Page and her son—and then the Apaches arrive. Maybe Wayne’s greatest non-Ford role; with an Oscar® nomination to ultra-method Page in her debut.

Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“Wayne's guileless performance is gently self-mocking, while still every inch the embodiment of the conviction that ‘a man ought to do what he thinks is best’.”
– Time Out

“Rousing, well-done Western with Wayne the tough, wily cavalry scout who comes upon Page and her young son living in the wilderness, unalarmed about a pending Apache uprising. Wayne is in top form here.”
– Leonard Maltin

“One of the best westerns of the moment.”
– François Truffaut