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Pursued (1947) 7.4
Brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s, an orphan grows up haunted by nightmares of a childhood trauma in which his own family was killed. Director:Raoul WalshWriter:Niven Busch (screenplay) |
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Title: Pursued (1947)
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Thor
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| Robert Mitchum | ... |
Jeb
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Mrs. Callum
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Grant
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Jake Dingle
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John Rodney | ... |
Adam
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Prentice
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Clifton Young | ... |
The Sergeant
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Ernest Severn | ... |
Jeb, age 11
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Charles Bates | ... |
Adam, age 11
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Peggy Miller | ... |
Thor, age 10
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Norman Jolley | ... |
A Callum
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Lane Chandler | ... |
A Callum
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Elmer Ellingwood | ... |
A Callum
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Jack Montgomery | ... |
A Callum
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In the 1880s orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their horse ranch after his own family is killed. Jeb is haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is murdered. Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting the colt that he was riding. Although Mrs. Callum blames the incident on deer hunters, she is aware that the shooting was actually the attempted murder of the youngster by her brother-in-law Grant, a shadowy figure who, for vague reasons, is determined to hurt Jeb. Jeb loses a coin flip with Adam, and becomes the designated family volunteer to fight in the Spanish-American War. Jeb returns a hero, but does not find happiness. Although ... Written by duke1029@aol.com
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2 March 1947 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
La vallĂ©e de la peur See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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[Approaching the burned out shell of a cabin]
Jeb: Came straight to this place just like I'd known the way. There was something in my life that ruined that house. That house was myself.
[Entering the charred remains]
Jeb: I'd seen it a million times before... the fireplace... the trap door...
[Walking outside again]
Jeb: Out back there was some cattle bones. All of a sudden I couldn't breathe, and then as I walked around the side, I came upon some unmarked ...
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The film Jim Morrison (lead singer of The Doors) watched on the night he died (July 3, 1971). See more »Goofs
After Adam is shot, a dummy is used to show his body rolling down the hill. The incline is not great and a stuntman could easily have been used, so the obvious dummy is a jarring note. See more »Quotes
Jeb: [Narrating] One day I rode up in the butte country...[Approaching the burned out shell of a cabin]
Jeb: Came straight to this place just like I'd known the way. There was something in my life that ruined that house. That house was myself.
[Entering the charred remains]
Jeb: I'd seen it a million times before... the fireplace... the trap door...
[Walking outside again]
Jeb: Out back there was some cattle bones. All of a sudden I couldn't breathe, and then as I walked around the side, I came upon some unmarked ...
See more »
Interesting camera-work is the main attribute of this late 1940s western. It plays and looks more like a film noir than a western, but there is nothing wrong with that. I enjoyed that aspect, especially the film noir-like cinematography. I say the latter because of all the stark black-and-white contrasts, night scenes and facial closeups. At the same time, it reminded me of a John Ford western with the expansive skies and big rock formations.
I can't say the story is anything special. It's almost frustrating, seeing everyone chase after Robert Mitchum even though the man has nothing wrong! Yes, it's a paranoid viewer's delight but it got to be a little much of a downer for me. However, Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger and company all acted well, and I appreciated their talents.