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RANCHO NOTORIOUS
1952
Director
Fritz Lang
Starring
Marlene Dietrich
Arthur Kennedy
Mel Ferrer
Runtime
86 MINUTES
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RANCHO NOTORIOUS, Fritz Lang's last, and wonderfully perverse, Western is generally considered his best work in the genre that most 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.
“The world of the film is a closed one,” writes Lotte Eisner, “in which moral alternatives are limited, in which there is literally nowhere to go.” With its garishly painted sets and Dietrich’s arch performance, RANCHO NOTORIOUS boldly eschews naturalism while the film’s incessantly repeated theme song pounds out a quintessential Lang chorus of “hate, murder, and revenge.” Expansive Western exteriors are traded for roiling psychological interiors and Dietrich towers over everything.
HATE, MURDER, and REVENGE!
“The world of the film is a closed one,” writes Lotte Eisner, “in which moral alternatives are limited, in which there is literally nowhere to go.” With its garishly painted sets and Dietrich’s arch performance, RANCHO NOTORIOUS boldly eschews naturalism while the film’s incessantly repeated theme song pounds out a quintessential Lang chorus of “hate, murder, and revenge.” Expansive Western exteriors are traded for roiling psychological interiors and Dietrich towers over everything.
HATE, MURDER, and REVENGE!