At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.
Acting
Jack Elam's unhinged menace before he became comic relief.
Direction
Hathaway traps you in that station, no escape, no relief.
Cinematography
Harsh desert light that makes the shadows feel even crueler.
Director
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power
Tom Owens
Susan Hayward
Vinnie Holt
Hugh Marlowe
Rafe Zimmerman
Dean Jagger
Yancy
Edgar Buchanan
Sam Todd
Jack Elam
Tevis
George Tobias
Gratz
Jeff Corey
Luke Davis
James Millican
Tex Squires
Louis Jean Heydt
Fickert
Robert Adler
Billy Dent (uncredited)
Dick Curtis
Hawley (uncredited)
Edith Evanson
Mrs. Hickman (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Often cited as proto-Hitchcockian western; Hathaway later admitted studying Lifeboat's single-location tension.
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