The Furies

1/31/2017

The Furies: Monsters of classical mythology, charged with keeping order by punishing the guilty in the Underworld. The Furies is directed by Anthony Mann and adapted to screenplay by Charles Schnee from the Niven Busch novel. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey, Judith Anderson and Gilbert Roland. Music is by Franz Waxman and cinematography by Victor Milner. "This is a story of the 1870's. . .in the New Mexico territory. . .when men created kingdoms out of land and cattle. . .and ruled their empires like feudal lords. Such a man was T.C. Jeffords. . .who wrote this flaming page in the history of the great Southwest." Anthony Mann was a fascinating and talented director, his career in direction of films can be broken into three sections. The 40s where he progre

1/11/2026

“Vance” (Barbara Stanwyck) has been brought up, with two brothers, on the “Furies”. An enormous New Mexican cattle ranch owned by her father “T.C.” (Walter Huston). It’s fairly clear that he has plans for her to succeed him, but it’s not going to be plain sailing. For a start, he is running out of cash and with a mortgage payment looming and 20,000 head of cattle needing to be rounded up and hopefully sold, he hasn’t his work to seek. There are also some pesky squatters on their land, and one of them “Herrera” (Gilbert Roland) is a lifelong friend/admirer of “Vance” and then finally we also have the embittered “Darrow” (Wendell Carey) who is determined to regain a piece of land he thinks the old man stole from him. He thinks that by playing up to “Vance” then maybe he can con both her and