Worth a look

A solid and unique western, with good direction and memorable performances from Huston and Stanwyck. The storytelling is a little uneven and occasionally relies a little too much on genre conventions, but it's never bad and at many times it borders on greatness. The film has an edge but it feels dulled, which makes it occasionally disappointing, but the fact that it could have been great shouldn't detract from it still being very good.

Great noir/western!

The term Hitchcockian gets thrown around a little too freely, but I think it applies here. Not because the film is suspenseful (though it is, at a few points) but because of the way it handles psychological issues. Stanwyck is terrific as a woman with a hell of an Electra complex, and the movie hints at incestuous undertones with her father. There's a lot of darkness to the story, although it backs away from that at the end which makes the conclusion a bit unsatisfying. Still excellent, though.