The Furies

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 s...

“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 hopef...