Desert Fury

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Desert Fury (1947)

NR 08/15/1947 (US) Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller 1h 36m

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Two men wanted her love ... The third wanted her life !

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The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

Lewis Allen

Director
Ramona Stewart

Novel
Robert Rossen

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John Hodiak

Eddie Bendix
Lizabeth Scott

Paula Haller
Burt Lancaster

Tom Hanson
Wendell Corey

Johnny Ryan
Mary Astor

Fritzi Haller
Kristine Miller

Claire Lindquist
William Harrigan

Berle Lindquist
James Flavin

Pat Johnson
Jane Novak

Mrs. Lindquist
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Desert Fury is directed by Lewis Allen and adapted to screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen from the novel Desert Town written by Ramona Stewart. It stars Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Mary Astor, Burt Lancaster and Wendell Corey. Music is by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography by Edward Cronjager and Charles Lang.

My my, what do we have here then? Desert Fury is a sort of collage of film noir and melodramatic shenanigans played out in splendid Technicolor saturation and set in amongst spanking vistas. Plot in short form finds Scott as Paula Haller, a late... read the rest.

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