Race hatred was still a
forbidden subject in the movies when this melodrama was made, but
Spencer Tracy made it a classic in the role that many consider
his greatest. As a one-armed man, Tracy arrives in a bleak desert
settlement, where he discovers that the town has a closely
guarded old secret involving murder and vengeance. With one of
the best casts ever assembled for any movie, and with incredible
wide-screen Cinemascope photography to bring out the vastness of
the desert, this film hurtles forward at a dizzying, suspenseful
pace. With Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Ernest Borgnine, Lee
Marvin, John Ericson, Walter Brennan. 
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