Synopsis
Rancho Notorious (1952) is a Fritz Lang western you can watch online on iFILM. Cowboy Vern Haskell rides home to discover his fiancée was murdered during a holdup at the store where she worked.
Driven by revenge, Vern follows the trail to a hidden ranch called Chuck-a-Luck, where Altar Keane — played by Marlene Dietrich — gives shelter to fugitives in exchange for a cut of their take. One of the guests is the gunslinger Frenchy Fairmont (Arthur Kennedy). Slowly, Vern figures out that the man he is hunting is holed up somewhere on the property.
Lang built the picture like a ballad, cutting back to a recurring song about hate, murder and revenge between scenes. Mel Ferrer and the reliably nasty Jack Elam fill out the cast. It is a bleak, stylized late entry in the genre, and Dietrich plays the aging queen of an outlaw refuge rather than a love interest — one of her final big western roles. Stream Rancho Notorious (1952) online on iFILM.
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