On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
Acting
Burt Reynolds actually acts here — brooding, broken, before the mustache took over.
Cinematography
Utah landscapes shot like fever-dream postcards by Harry Stradling Jr.
Director
Richard C. Sarafian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Miles and Burt Reynolds had a notorious affair during filming that nearly derailed production — the tension you see is very real.
This was part of 1973's wave of 'neurotic Westerns' trying to replicate Peckinpah's emotional brutality without the poetry — critics hated it, but it's fascinating as a time capsule.
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