Pursued
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Released
- 1947
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1947
Storyline
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
Top credits
Teresa Wright — Thor Callum
Robert Mitchum — Jeb Rand
Judith Anderson — Mrs. Callum
Dean Jagger — Grant Callum
Did you know
• This is the movie Jim Morrison (lead singer of The Doors) watched on the night he died (July 3, 1971).
• This movie was screened on May 31, 2013 at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, especially to showcase the acting of Robert Mitchum and the way Director Raoul Walsh displayed the influence of Orson Welles with the movie's "crushing angles and looming close-ups." Made after World War II, this movie dramatizes a veteran's return home - after the Spanish-American War - almost fifty years earlier.
• One of the most obvious Orson Welles influences on Walsh is the scene when the camera tracks Mitchum and Wright as they ride their buggy through town. This is straight out of Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
User reviews
Classic Noir Western.
A different kind of "horse opera"
Startlingly Good Noir Western.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
