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After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.
Rodd Redwing
- Rio
- (as Rodric Redwing)
Victor Adamson
- Racer with Fat Girl
- (uncredited)
Roger Anderson
- Red
- (uncredited)
Al Bain
- Race Spectator
- (uncredited)
Ray Beltram
- Barfly
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCinematographer Hal Mohr, who had previously photographed Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again" (1939), attempted to resign from the film due to 50-year old Dietrich's insistence that he use lighting to make her look much younger than she actually was, and Mohr didn't think it was possible.
- GoofsWhen Haskell and Fairmont are in the cell and talking about gambling. One of them refers to a Chuck-a-Luck "Wheel". There is no wheel in Chuck-a-Luck. Chuck-a-Luck is a dice game, it's played with three dice usually contained in an hour-glass shaped rotatable cage. Bets are placed as to what number will come up on gaming table. The game played in the film involves a wheel with pegs in between representations of all the possible 3-dice rolls, which is the wheel that is both talked and sung about. This is a variation on the original game called Big Six Wheel. Because of the distribution of the combinations, the house advantage or edge for this wheel is greater than for chuck-a-luck.
- Quotes
Altar Keane: [to Vern] I'd wish you go away... and come back ten years ago.
- Crazy creditsAs the title song plays and Bill Lee sings the lyric "... and a man of steel ..." there are eleven names of supporting actors on screen, and the name in the central position is George Reeves, soon to be cast as The Man of Steel in *The Adventures of Superman* (1952-58).
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)
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About as sexy and smoldering as your grandmother...
When the film begins, Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) is shown with his fiancé. However, shortly after Vern leaves her store, a thug wanders in to rob the place and then assaults and murders her as well. Vern makes it his life work to track down the killer and punish him, but he has very few clues. Through much of the film, he's on the trail and eventually finds his way to a wanted man, Frenchy Fairmont (Mel Ferrer). He arranges to break Frenchy out of jail...and pretends to be a bad guy in the hope that Frenchy takes him to the rest of the gang and the murderer. Once with the gang, however, like EVERYONE in this film he inexplicably falls for the charms of Altar Keane (Marlene Dietrich)--a woman who runs sort of a hostel for crooks called 'Chuck-A-Luck'. Vern's problem now is what to do...keep on his path of revenge or settle down with Altar and her feminine wiles.
While I know a lot of folks love this film, for me it was problematic to watch due to the casting. Like Joan Crawford in "Johnny Guitar", the leading lady (Dietrich) was just too old and unattractive to be portraying such a vivacious and sexy character. Some women are still gorgeous at 51, but, sadly, Dietrich here is just kind of sad playing a sexy siren. This is a severe knock against the film as is the annoying song "Chuck-A-Luck", though otherwise it is well acted, written and directed (by Fritz Lang of all people). Enjoyable but seriously flawed.
While I know a lot of folks love this film, for me it was problematic to watch due to the casting. Like Joan Crawford in "Johnny Guitar", the leading lady (Dietrich) was just too old and unattractive to be portraying such a vivacious and sexy character. Some women are still gorgeous at 51, but, sadly, Dietrich here is just kind of sad playing a sexy siren. This is a severe knock against the film as is the annoying song "Chuck-A-Luck", though otherwise it is well acted, written and directed (by Fritz Lang of all people). Enjoyable but seriously flawed.
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- Chuck-a-Luck
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- Budget
- $900,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $32
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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