This Freudian Western Puts a New, Radical Spin on the Genre
Although he wasn’t as revered in his time as his contemporariesJohn FordandHoward Hawks,Anthony Mannwas king of the metaphorical Western. After making a name for himself in low-budgetfilm noir, Mann moved to Westerns in the 1950s, using the genre as a means to explore the same psychologically complex and darkly cynical terrain as he had in his noirs. One of the best of these isThe Furies, his only western to center on a woman, whichcompletely upends the genre ofJohn WayneandGary Cooperwith Freudian symbolism and feminist ideology....