Slotting all his trademark obsessions into the craggy architecture of Hollywood's lynchpin genre, German export Fritz Lang's third and final Western is one of the most unusual you'll ever see. A typically Langian tale of "hate, murder and revenge", it sees mild-man Arthur Kennedy strap on a six-gun and his best I'm-gonna-kill-'em face to hunt down his fiancée's murderer. The trail blazes to the titular notorious ranch, hideout of Mob diva Marlene Dietrich and her jealous quick-draw beau Mel Ferrer...
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