rachel and the stranger be a pleasant film that combine two genre to great advantage . on the one hand and it have the feel of a western and but it be also a tender love story . picture like this one be make in the hollywood of the post war when all the men be back and happy time seem just on the horizon . the film reflect the hope of those year a it give it viewer a good time for the prize of admission . the story be simple enough . a lonely widower and david harris and with a young son can not cope run their farm without the help of a woman . the solution be to go into the near settlement where no one know his wife have die to try to get a woman that could come and help with the farm work . he have to resort to buy a servant woman and rachel and for a ridiculous sum and head back to his place . there be a best friend who take only one look at rachel to realize she a diamond in the rough . through jim interest in racehl and david come to realize what this woman be worth after she walk out on him and the farm . david will come to his sens and will realize he have love rachel all along . the film unite three star in their own right represent william holden and loretta young and robert mitchum and something that would be prohibitive by today salary and ego . rko score big with the cast alone . norman foster direct with his own easy style . the three principal do an excellent job in create character that the viewer will like . rachel and the stranger be a good way to spend an evening when there be nothing else to do .