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Backlash is a american film of genre Romance directed by John Sturges released in USA on 11 april 1956 with Richard Widmark
Backlash (1956)
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Add to a movie listBacklash is a 1956 Technicolor film starring Richard Widmark, released by Universal-International.
It was directed by John Sturges (with whom Widmark would also make another western The Law and Jake Wade), and unfolds in the vein of the psychological Western (a subgenre that has yielded many films, e.g. those of Anthony Mann, with whose films this bears comparison). It delivers an unconventional story, written by Borden Chase, that sometimes crosses into film noir, as a colorful cast of supporting characters help or hinder the protagonist during the unfolding of its central mystery.
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Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.Actors
Richard Widmark
(Jim Slater)
Donna Reed
(Karyl Orton)
John McIntire
(Jim Bonniwell / William Slater)
William Campbell
(Johnny Cool)
Barton MacLane
(Sergeant George Lake)
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