Pursued (1947)

 

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. 

Dark noir Western reaps ups the passions in a mysterious, violent family feud with a doomed Robert Mitchum caught in its midst; compelling with beautiful black-and-white cinematography.

Halliwell*: "Glum, good-looking revenge Western."

Maltin***: "Grim, passionate Western noir, a family saga of love, hate, revenge, and a hint of incest...Stunning photography..." 

 

The Movies I Watched in June

Apollo 18 (2011)  6

Army of the Dead (2021)  6 

The Boy (2016)  6

The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey (2016)  6

Casting JonBenet (2017)  7

El caso Wanninkhof-Carabantes (2021)  6

La caza (1966)  7

 

The Dissident (2020)  6

El espinazo del diablo (2001)  7

Flight to Nowhere (1946)  4 

The House on Dead End Street (1973)  6

The House With a Clock in Its Walls (2018)  6

The Hustler (1961)  8

Jigoku (1960)  7

 

Kanal (1957)  7

 King Lear (1987)  7

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)  6

Life (2015)  6

The Lineup (1958)  7

Lupin (2021)  6

Lykke-Per (2018)  8

Paris Calligrammes (2020)  7

 Prince of the City (1981)  8

 Pursued (1947)  7

Samson and Delilah (1949)  7

 

The Shout (1978)  6

Stan & Ollie (2018)  7

 

They Live (1988)  6 

Thoroughbreds (2017)  7

 

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)  6 

Ugetsu monogatari (1953)  9

 

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)  6

Wonder Wheel (2017)  6

Sea Devils (1953)

A a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800.

Despite all the credits this is a quite dull-plotted historical spy romance, basically a boat sailing back and forth to an island till all misunderstandings are resolved.