Geronimo1967
With decades of experience in this genre behind him, Rip Torn is on good form as the hardened Wyoming rancher all too familiar with the travails of making ends meet in this remote wilderness. Here he takes on the role of Clyde who employs the newly arrived widow Elinor (Conchata Ferrell) as his housekeeper. She has a young daughter in tow (Megan Folsom) and after a while concludes that shed sooner break out on her own. He, sensibly, advises against that and so they come up with a marital compromise that sees them pull their respective resources. Now he was right, life there is lonely and when the winter sets in its dark and bitterly cold. So cold, in fact, that the couple - whose marriage has only ever really been one of convenience - suffe...