Westerns tend not to be associated with rigorous academia. With stories often set in the lawless Wild West, the genre thrives off the self-determined everyman clawing his bloody way through deserts ...

William A. Wellman’s 1948 western, beautifully shot in Death Valley by Joe MacDonald, is gritty and ambitious, but the story, adapted by producer Lamar Trotti from a short story by W.R. Burnett, grows ...

1948 Movie"It was as if the YELLOW SKY had sought them out... where fate had forgotten them and life had left them behind!" ...