Rancho Notorious (1952)

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Genre

Western film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 126 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man searches for his wife's killer in the Old West. His quest leads him to a remote hideout for outlaws run by a tough woman.

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What happens

Rancho Notorious is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called Chuck-a-Luck, named after the game of chance referenced in the film. Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer play rivals for her attention in this tale of frontier revenge. The independent film was originally titled Chuck-a-Luck, with "The Legend of Chuck-a-Luck" as the title song, but the name was changed at the insistence of Howard Hughes, then head of RKO Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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