The Furies

1950

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 4258 4.3K

new mexico patriarch squatter stepmother cattle hanging

Plot summary

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

Director

Anthony Mann Photo
Anthony Mann

Top cast

Louis Jean Heydt Photo
Louis Jean Heydt as Bailey
Wendell Corey Photo
Wendell Corey as Rip Darrow
Charles Evans Photo
Charles Evans as Old Anaheim
Movita Photo
Movita as Chiquita
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10

Walter Huston's last film and a great western

This film about the feud between a megalomaniac rancher T.C. Jeffords(Walter Huston) and his daughter Vance (Barbara Stanwyck) is an unusual but excellent western. Jeffords and his daughter have a complex relationship with even a hint of the sordid that had to remain unstated in 1950, when this film was made. In middle age T.C. takes a wife, Flo (Judith Anderson). Vance sees Flo as a threat to her relationship with Daddy, and in an angry moment hurls a pair of scissors at Flo's face. In revenge T.C. kills someone who means a great deal to his daughter, the squatter Herrara (Gilbert Roland).From this moment forward the battle between father and daughter shifts from being one of violence to one of wits. Wendell Corey plays Rip Darrow, Stanwyck's love interest in this film. He quickly finds that as long as Daddy is alive that he will always come in second. Daddy has ownership of all of the emotions Vance has to give - both love and hate.This film is basically a film noir played out on a Western landscape. It is often "Mourning Becomes Electra" from the father/daughter angle versus mother and son. Directed by Anthony Mann, maker of the thinking person's Westerns, it is a shame that Walter Huston did not live to see the release of this - his final film - in which he gives so great a performance.
Reviewed by kenjha 7 / 10

Stars Worth Watching

In his final film, Huston plays a larger than life character who owns a big ranch that he is struggling to maintain financially. Stanwyck is the head-strong daughter that he clashes with, particularly when Anderson enters the picture as his fiancé. One can imagine her character later became Victoria Barkley in "The Big Valley." Mann specialized in Westerns and he does well enough here, but the problem is that the script is not very interesting. Huston and Stanwyck are always worth watching, but Corey seems to be miscast as the romantic lead. Waxman, who won the Oscar for "Sunset Blvd." the same year, provides a lively score. Interestingly, both Mann and Waxman lived from 1906 to 1967.
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