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THE FURIES
U.S., 1950
Directed by Anthony Mann
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey
Approx. 109 min. 16mm.
Duel of the Titans as last of the original pioneers Walter Huston (in his final role) slugs it out with his strong minded daughter Barbara Stanwyck for control of his giant cattle ranch. “One of Mann’s greatest Westerns — in effect, a frontier Noir with epic ambitions and Shakespearean audacities.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
16mm print courtesy The Academy Film Archive.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Remains Mann’s masterpiece, the apotheosis of his style and themes.”
– David N. Meyer, The Brooklyn Rail
“Part western, part woman’s melodrama, part excursion into Freudian psychoanalytic material that must surely have posed problems for the ever-alert censors.”
– Robin Wood, Criterion