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Ghost Canyon

The Capture (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]
(Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, et al / Blu-ray / NR / (1950) 2022 / The Film Detective)

Overview: From writer Niven Busch, the author of Duel in the Sun, comes an equally torrid sizzler, loaded with the intrigue and passion that marked the golden age of cinema.

Cast with strong performers, this story of guilt and forbidden love still packs a jolt.

Injured and on the run from police, Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres) confesses the sordid details of his life to a priest, which includes the death of a man he’d turned over to the police.

Vanner also reveals that he fell in love with the dead man’s widow (Teresa Wright), only to have his past catch up to him. Haunting and offbeat, The Capture (1950) was directed by one of Hollywood’s best, John Sturges (The Great Escape).

DVD Verdict: John Sturges was one of the most reliable directors of Hollywood, consistently making greater and better films and in later years trusted with very advanced and complicated film projects, which he managed quite well like everything else.

This is a minor noir but still reaching some monumental stature in its very interesting story of destiny and the chase of it while it ends up chasing you.

Lew Ayres is always worth watching closely on the screen, he always accepted very interesting roles, and here he is pursuing a robber from his oil company and manages to hunt him down - to get him killed by mistake.

He leaves a widow with a son, and Lew Ayres wants desperately to atone for his mistake and takes a job at her ranch as an odd worker. She gradually understands his hand in her husband’s death, while at the same time that marriage is proved not to have been too happy - so Teresa Wright marries Lew Ayres, and they are both happy for it, but that’s where the real problems start.

Because Lew Ayres can’t get it out of his mind that her previous husband was shot to death and blamed for the theft although he was innocent, and so the new husband sets his mind on finding the real villain in the mess.

The composition of the film is perfect, relying mainly on long flashbacks, gradually revealing a fascinating intricacy of a sordid matter, the photo and cinematography is also great, but above all you will enjoy the wonderful environments of wildest Mexico and Daniele Amfitheatrof’s gorgeous music all through, with even some Mexican songs on the way.

To me, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and most interesting film, and although there have been objections against the ending over the years, I felt the opposite about it, just like an old thriller veined with intrigue, along with a turn of unexpected and yet quite natural character. In brief, I loved it, as I have so far always greatly enjoyed all of John Sturges’ films. [CC] This is a Full Screen Presentation (1:37.1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

Audio commentary track with author/screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner
Teresa Wright: The Actress Next Door Featurette
John Sturges: Man of Action Featurette
Not Quite Picture Perfect, an essay by author Don Stradley

Original essay in full color booklet

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