Pursued

  • Western
  • Romance
  • Drama
3/2/1947
101
NR

Robert Mitchum fights for the love of three people who want to see him dead...his family.

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.

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  • Wuchak

    Mitchum carries this moody Film Noir Western set in turn-of-the-century New Mexico

    An adopted son at a ranch (Robert Mitchum) is haunted by something that happened in his childhood as he goes off to fight in the Spanish-American War. Upon his return, he romances Thorley (Teresa Wright) while dealing with the love-hate relationship of his brother (John Rodney). Meanwhile theres the specter of a one-armed man in the background (Dean Jagger).

    Pursued (1947) is a well-produced B&W Western with a huge reputation and infamously known for being the film Jim Morrison watched the night he perished on July 3, 1971. Mitchum was 29 during shooting and his towering, brooding presence makes the flick worthwhile, along with Raoul Walshs Orson ...

    October 12, 2024

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