A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Direction
Buñuel's only American film—surrealist eye meets sweaty realism.
Acting
Zachary Scott's warden simmers with unexamined cruelty.
Writing
Peter Matthiessen's script refuses easy villains.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Mexico doubling for the American South because Buñuel was effectively blacklisted from Hollywood during the McCarthy era.
Buñuel later called this his least favorite of his own films—possibly because it was too direct, too angry, too American for his usual sly detachment.
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