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Bookmark this pagePursued (1947)
Director: Raoul Walsh
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From Time Out Film Guide
A superb Western film noir, with Mitchum pursued through near-epic landscapes of the mind by the indistinct demons of childhood trauma, and the narrative boldly structured around flashback insights which gradually provide both a key to his identity and the inexorable impetus for a violent catharsis. Walsh's intelligent handling of Oedipal themes here and in White Heat gives the definitive lie to his self-cultured image as merely an adventuresome Hollywood primitive, while the film proves that the late '40s noir sensibility spread way beyond the bounds of the urban crime thriller.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Milton Sperling
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, John Rodney, Alan Hale, Harry Carey Jr full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 101 mins
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