Fritz Lang's last and wonderfully perverse Western is generally considered his best work in the genre that so fascinated him. The underrated Arthur Kennedy plays a rancher, out to avenge his fiancée's death, who stumbles into a community of outlaws led by Marlene Dietrich in one of her great post-war roles. While neither Lang nor cinematographer Hal Mohr are known for their work in color, the film uses the Western's palette intelligently, as a muted color scheme against which bright colors (especially red and green) are set off dramatically.