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Vengeance Valley

1951 · 83 min

A brooding, slow-burning western where family loyalty curdles into resentment, with bursts of violence and a tense, tragic payoff.

Tagline
Burt Lancaster in His BIGGEST Outdoor Adventure Drama!
Overview
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • betrayal
  • grief
  • greed
  • guilt
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror1
Humour2
Realism6
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
western
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Written by
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Starring
Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland, Carleton Carpenter, Ray Collins, Ted de Corsia
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
83 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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