Thursday, March 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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Track of the Cat (1954)
(William A. Wellman, US 1954, 102 min., 35mm)
It’s man against beast — and not just the animal kind — when a brutal rancher (Robert Mitchum) scours the snowbound Rockies for an elusive killer panther. William Hopper, Tab Hunter, and Teresa Wright are Mitchum’s siblings, prone to in-fighting and jealousy in their remote mountain ranch as plans for the future are made. Determined to shoot a black-and-white film in color, director Wellman crafted a visually stunning allegory about man in the wild, and the wild that forever exists deep within our civilized selves.