Criterion Collection: The Furies (US-Import, Region 1)DVD
Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston are at their fierce finest in master Hollywood craftsman Anthony Mann's crackling western melodrama The Furies. In 1870s New Mexico Territory, megalomaniacal widowed ranch owner T. C. Jeffords ( Huston, in his final role) butts heads with his daughter, Vance ( Stanwyck), a firebrand with serious daddy issues, over her dowry, choice of husband, and, finally, ownership of the land itself. Both sophisticated in its view of frontier settlement and ablaze with searing domestic drama, The Furies is a hidden treasure of American filmmaking, boasting Oscar-nominated cinematography and vivid supporting turns from Judith Anderson, Wendell Corey, and Gilbert Roland.
Disc Features
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Audio commentary featuring film historian Jim Kitses ( Horizons West)
The Movies: " Action Speaks Louder than Words, " a 1967 television interview with director Anthony Mann
A rare, 1931 on-camera interview with Walter Huston, made for the movie theater series Intimate Interviews
New video interview with Nina Mann, daughter of Anthony Mann
Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes photos
Theatrical trailer
P L U S: A booklet featuring a new essay by renowned critic Robin Wood and a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview with Mann, as well as a new printing of Niven Busch's original novel
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