Jessica Drummond is a powerful landowner who runs an entire Arizona county with an iron fist by the help of her forty hired guns. Things go just as she wants until a handsome gunslinger named Griff Bonnell and his brothers appear and change everything.
Here is Sam Fuller in top gear, as writer, director and producer, with a Western that is solidly crafted and brilliantly cast. Barbara Stanwyck is at her peak, although her peak lasted decades
... sexual energy and psychotic violence that explodes onscreen in staccato editing, darting camerawork, and the maddest expressions of love this side of Duel in the Sun.