The movie's jarring violence pales beside the clashes of egos and the disputes between new banking interests and age-old claims on the land.

Mann executes it with rich narrative economy to narrate a story of financial crises, parental wounds and territorial conflicts, with two compelling performances from Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston. Full review in Spanish

A fascinating entry in the Western genre; flawed, powerful, and haunting, a meditation on the all-encompassing corruption of capitalism that, in perhaps the most American fashion, ends up paying tribute to the very figures it set out to condemn.

Hardly a formulaic Western.