Duke’s company Batjac produced Track of the Cat (1954), which has been unavailable as a DVD until now. Like The High and the Mighty (1954), which was a big success for Wayne, the picture was directed by William Wellman, who had adapted Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident 10 years earlier. Robert Mitchum stars as an acerbic rancher on the trail of a murderous “black painter,” while his snowbound family plays out their turgid drama like disenfranchised characters from a scutt


Already Signed Up? Log in here.

Read this article now for Free!

Ready for a third free article? Create a free account by entering your email address and a password below.

— OR —

Sign Up Now for $29.95 a year and have immediate access to all of True West content, including the complete True West Archives dating back to 1953!

SIGN UP NOW or SIGN IN

This digital subscription is in no way connected to your Print Subscription. They are totally separate and cannot be connected. If you have a Print Subscription with True West, you will need to pay for a separate subscription to access this website and will receive a totally different Log In password. If you have an existing digital component to your Print subscription, you'll need to Sign In and request a new password.