Video: A speck in the cosmos – the inner frontiers of Raoul Walsh’s Pursued

Tag Gallagher offers a psychological reading of Raoul Walsh's 1947 Robert Mitchum starrer Pursued, perhaps Hollywood's first psychological western and certainly one of its weirdest.

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Video: A speck in the cosmos – the inner frontiers of Raoul Walsh’s Pursued

Pursued screened as one of the 14 films in the Sight & Sound Deep Focus programme Ride Lonesome: The Psychological Western, running through May 2016 at BFI Southbank, London.

 

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