(William Wellman, US 1954, 103 min.)

Survivalist. It’s man against beast — and not just the animal kind — when a brutal rancher (Robert Mitchum) scours the snowbound Rockies for an elusive killer panther. Determined to shoot a black-and-white film in color, director Wellman crafted a visually stunning allegory about man in the wild, and the wild that forever exists deep within our civilized selves.

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