maybe because it deserves to be???
shareI think there is more to it than that. Maybe at its time of release, it was competing with cinema blockbusters that overshadowed it. Or maybe post WW2 America wasn't quite ready for big-city, film noir to spill over into westerns. Anyway, I consider this little gem to be a masterpiece.
shareare u sure u saw it?...
if not watch it...u're gonna change your opinion
My guess is because of Mann's Westerns, alongside Cimarron, it's easily the weakest. Both are at times more women's pictures than westerns and both only really work effectively for half their running time - Cimarron for the first half and The Furies in its second once the rather heavy-handed scene-setting is out of the way and the real power struggle begins. Mann managed the dynastic infighting much better in The Man From Laramie, El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire.
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I don't know but it's got a really amazing soundtrack! I can tell you that.
shareIt's a ripping yarn. Good stuff.
shareUgh, the score was the worst part of the movie - so overbearing.
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Definitely western-noir and many think the best of that type. There's only about 25 western-noirs so get out there and watch yer butt off!
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For some reason this film is not shown on television or cable, which mystifies me as it's a very very interesting film. It is now available on DVD. It does have some similarities from the way it looks to "The Night of the Hunter". I admire "The Furies" chiefly for Mr. Mann's direction, Walter Huston's, Ms. Stanwyck's and Mr. Roland's acting, and Franz Waxman's film score.
shareIf you ask me, it's the fault of the screenwriter or the novelist, probably the former- the dialogue clearly indicates somebody thought they had to spell out every last detail for the idiot audience. For example, I paraphrase: "So, your name is Rip. You look like your stick in the knife and cut!"
shareThis is one of only two Freudian westerns and as such is usually not understood possibly becuz it can make the viewer uneasy. Since this is all an unconscious reaction the only alternative is for the viewer to turn it off. Either that or object strenuously and claim it ain't true. Ha!
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