An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Cinematography
Wyckoff turns Wyoming into existential void
Direction
Tourneur's last noir—economy as art form
Acting
Bancroft before stardom, smoldering
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Aldo Ray
James Vanning / Art Rayburn
Anne Bancroft
Marie Gardner
Brian Keith
John
James Gregory
Ben Fraser
Jocelyn Brando
Laura Fraser
Frank Albertson
Dr. Edward Gurston
Rudy Bond
Red
Bess Flowers
Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
Gene Roth
Bartender (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Fashion Show Spectator (uncredited)
George Cisar
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tourneur famously disliked location shooting, yet this film weaponizes Wyoming's blinding white void as effectively as his studio shadows.
Aldo Ray was so physically imposing that Tourneur had to frame him carefully—he kept looking like he could actually win fights, which ruins noir tension.
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