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Track of the Cat is a 1954 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Diana Lynn. The film is based on a 1949 adventure novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Around the turn of the 20th century, during a harsh northern California winter, members of a ranching family are squabbling among themselves while the two oldest sons go hunting for a panther that is killing their livestock. Director. William A. Wellman.
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- Drama, Western
- William A. Wellman
- 1954-11-19
William Wellman's elusive Track of the Cat, the veteran director's 1954 visual experiment in filming a color movie in which almost all the "colors" are black or white, turns out to be just that: an experiment.
- William A. Wellman, Andrew V. Mclaglen
- Robert Mitchum
Beulah Bondi. Ma Bridges. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. In a snowbound homestead in Northern California, the Bridges family lives in contentious squalor.
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- William A. Wellman
- Adventure
- Robert Mitchum
Mar 28, 2022 · Mitchum plays Curt Bridges. The film has a dominant matriarch “Ma” (Beulah Bondi) and two other brothers (Tab Hunter, William Hopper) and a sister (Teresa Wright- I almost did not recognize her here more than a decade after Shadow of a Doubt ). The house of the Bridges’ is completely black and white- the entire kitchen, the bedroom, the barn.
With this dark film, Wellman became one of the first Hollywood auteurs to explore 1950s baroque obsessions. This Cold War western has been referred to as “CinemaScope's first genuine weirdie.” Wayne-Fellows Productions, Inc. Producer: John Wayne, Robert Fellows. Director: William A. Wellman. Screenwriter: A.I. Bezzerides.
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Track of the Cat is a 1954 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Diana Lynn. The film is based on a 1949 adventure novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.