Directed by Norman Foster
William Holden gets most of the screen time here as a log cabin widower who buys out the contract of an indentured servant, Rachel (Loretta Young), and makes her his wife for purely practical reasons. Inexplicably cast in a supporting role by RKO, Mitchum nevertheless steals the film as a seductive, singing frontier hunter who lights a fire in Rachel’s heart and sparks a fit of jealously in her husband.
RKO. Producer: Richard H. Berger. Based on a short story by Howard Fast. Screenwriter: Waldo Salt. Cinematographer: Maury Gertsman. Editor: Les Millbrook. Cast: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully.
16mm, b/w, 93 min.
