Rancho Notorious (1952) On DVD

Actor:      Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Director:  Fritz Lang
Genre:      Westerns
Year:         1952
Studio:      RKO 
Length:     99
Released: January 25, 2010
Rating:      Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:     DVD
Misc:         Black & White
Language:English
Subtitles  :N/A

DESCRIPTION:

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 fiancée.

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.