0ne of the strange western ever and one of the very best too . the story of a man deprive of his past and doom with a feeling that he do not belong here . mitchum give one of his best performance and the other actor be also excellent . walsh direction be a ever powerful and give to the movie a sense of shakespearian tragedy . one of the peculiarity of this movie be the importance and complexity of woman character represent it be they that take the meaningful decision and it be they that know good than the men whether they be too stupid ( jeb rand brother ) and too sore ( mac callum ) or too foreign to their own destiny ( jeb rand ) . in a word and do not miss it .