A thriller that runs around everywhere, dipping its toes into melodrama, social problem picture, action, and film noir, with mostly breathless abandon thanks to director Douglas Sirk and co-writer Sam Fuller. Patricia Knight is a parolee trying to go straight, torn between former lover and gambler John Baragrey and upstanding romantic parole officer Cornel Wilde, but fate soon implodes this triangle into an erotic escape from social convention. Weird details abound, like Wilde's blind mother and the inexplicable character reversal…

An auteurist curio and a masterpiece of redface, Sirk's delightfully over-serious Western juggles some dependable action with an uninteresting tale of sibling rivalry between Taza (Rock Hudson) and Naiche (Rex Reason), scions of Cochise (Jeff Chandler) who dies as the movie opens. Despite apparently enjoying the hell out of making the picture, not much of what makes Sirk or Hudson interesting today survives in the film, except for a kind of double life that Taza must live as a chieftan…