Cinematheque: Anthony Mann's Westerns

Link (Gary Cooper) is a reformed outlaw now married with children who is accidentally reunited with the savage gang he left years earlier. Link agrees to participate in a bank robbery in order to protect the gang’s two captives. Beautifully filmed in CinemaScope and color, Mann’s fascination with psychologically complex heroes and villains, as well as his mastery of filming figures against a landscape, reaches the same intense levels of the director’s celebrated westerns made with James Stewart.