Container of (work): Furies (Motion picture : 1950)
Notes:
Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Gilbert Roland, Thomas Gomez, Beulah Bondi, Albert Dekker, John Bromfield, Wallace Ford, Blanche Yurka, Louis Jean Heydt, Frank Ferguson, Charles Evans, Movita Casteneda, Craig Kelly, Myrna Dell. Based on the novel by Niven Busch. Originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Full screen (1.33:1). Booklet includes an essay by Robin Wood and a 1957 interview with Mann. Accompanying book is the complete novel: The furies / Niven Busch. Supplements: Audio commentary from film historian and Western scholar Jim Kitses; Radical classicism (new program featuring critic Imogen Sara Smith discussing The furies); Anthony Mann (Action speaks louder than words: the film of Anthony Mann, a 1967 episode of the British television program The movies with Anthony Mann and Paul Mayersberg); Walter Huston (1931 rare on-camera Walter Huston interview with Dorothy West); Nina Mann (interview from 2008 with Anthony Mann's daughter); trailer.
Summary:
In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T.C. Jeffords butts heads with his daughter, Vance, a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and finally, ownership of the land itself.
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