I just watched this little known film on Netflix. It's gorgeous and fascinating, allowing both frustration and identification with each of three main characters. A modern Adam and Eve story with Ray Milland as a charismatic snake, Debra Paget as a frustrated and sympathetic Eve and Anthony Quinn as an alternately tender and vengeful Adam. The film straddles multiple genres--film noir to melodrama to western---reminding me particularly of Willian Wellman's The Purchase Price and Victor Sjostrom's The Wind in it's thematic exploration of tough urban girls who grow in moral dimension as they learn to appreciate men who have a practical intimacy with the earth.
One wonders if the compelling New Mexico/Arizona scenery is on location. This is Technicolor at it's most subtle and beautiful. What a movie.
One wonders if the compelling New Mexico/Arizona scenery is on location. This is Technicolor at it's most subtle and beautiful. What a movie.