Rancho Notorious
In his third and final Western, Fritz Lang unsaddles the genre to create a tempestuous cult favorite. Critics have likened the film and its theme of a man twisted by vengeance to a Lang film of a wholly different genre: film noir's The Big Heat.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry & William Frawley | |
Performer: | John Raven, Lisa Ferraday, Jack Elam & Lloyd Gough | |
Directed by | Fritz Lang | |
Edited by | Otto Ludwig | |
Screenwriting by | Daniel Taradash | |
Composition by | Emil Newman | |
Produced by | Howard Welsch | |
Director of Photography: | Hal Mohr |
Entertainment Reviews:
There is a distinct hokeyness about Lang's vision of the West--pancake-flat sets in a generic studio-backlot Western town; giant, abstract crab-colored boulders made out of papier-mache, brazenly unnaturalistic stage-lighting--but it's the ardent phoneyne
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 4/5 --
Cool, way ahead of its day western with Dietrich and her band of baddies.
Kansas City Kansan
Because the small budget kept Lang sequestered on the studio lot, he found a way to use the sets for their claustrophobic, caged feel.
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Combustible Celluloid
Remarkable Western with a wild mix of themes and styles
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 7/10 --
...pure Fritz Lang through and through.
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The Retro Set
Rating: A- --
It's Lang's last Western and one that covers again the themes he successfully used in his noir films...
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rancho Notorious is strange. Peculiar. Outrageous. Utterly distinctive.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Bandits, gunslingers - they know they can find refuge at the remote outpost of the lawless called Chuck-a-Luck. There, in exchange for a 10% cut of any loot, former barroom belle Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich) serves as den mother to a Wild West den of thieves. Among the newcomers at the rancho: Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy), who poses as an outlaw in hopes of smoking out the desperado who killed his fiancee.
In his third and final Western, Fritz Lang unsaddles the genre to create a tempestuous cult favorite swapping expansive exteriors for roiling psychological interiors. Critics have likened the film and its theme of a man twisted by vengeance to a Lang film of a wholly different genre: film noir's The Big Heat.
Product Description:
In what is perhaps Fritz Lang's most personal and psychological western, RANCHO NOTORIOUS suffuses the bleak sensibility and textbook psychology of his earlier Film Noir work with a romantic and somewhat sentimental vision of the old west.
In 1870s Wyoming, the fiancée of a cowboy named Vern is savagely raped and murdered. Enraged, Vern sets out to find her killer. His search eventually leads him to a ranch called Chuck-a-Luck which serves as a hideaway for outlaws. But when he meets the ranch's alluring owner, aging saloon queen Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich), and begins to fall in love with her, his search is thrown off course. The movie's theme song leads the narrative inexorably along in Vern's suspenseful quest to unearth and trap the unknown killer, but his newfound allegiance to Altar confuses his intentions. Posing as an escaped criminal himself, Vern finally comes face to face with his target in the wake of a botched bank robbery, and the violence that began his quest comes full circle. Looking for guidance and salvation, Vern decides to tell Altar everything, but the residents of Chuck-a-Luck would prefer that Altar sided with them, leading to a cycle of death, murder, and revenge.
In 1870s Wyoming, the fiancée of a cowboy named Vern is savagely raped and murdered. Enraged, Vern sets out to find her killer. His search eventually leads him to a ranch called Chuck-a-Luck which serves as a hideaway for outlaws. But when he meets the ranch's alluring owner, aging saloon queen Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich), and begins to fall in love with her, his search is thrown off course. The movie's theme song leads the narrative inexorably along in Vern's suspenseful quest to unearth and trap the unknown killer, but his newfound allegiance to Altar confuses his intentions. Posing as an escaped criminal himself, Vern finally comes face to face with his target in the wake of a botched bank robbery, and the violence that began his quest comes full circle. Looking for guidance and salvation, Vern decides to tell Altar everything, but the residents of Chuck-a-Luck would prefer that Altar sided with them, leading to a cycle of death, murder, and revenge.
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- Sales Rank: 11,661
- UPC: 883316213339
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