PURSUED
DIRECTED BY RAUL WALSH
PRODUCED BY MILTON SPERLING
UNITED STATES PICTURES
WARNER BROS. PICTURES
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Plot Summary
In the 1880s orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their horse ranch
after his own family is killed. Jeb is haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare
of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is murdered.
Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up,
but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity.
While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam
is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting the colt that he was riding.
Although Mrs. Callum blames the incident on deer hunters, she is aware that the shooting
was actually the attempted murder of the youngster by her brother-in-law Grant,
a shadowy figure who, for vague reasons, is determined to hurt Jeb.
Jeb loses a coin flip with Adam, and becomes the designated family volunteer to fight in the
Spanish-American War. Jeb returns a hero, but does not find happiness. Although ...
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Full Cast
Teresa Wright ... Thor
Robert Mitchum ... Jeb
Judith Anderson ... Mrs. Callum
Dean Jagger ... Grant
Alan Hale ... Jake Dingle
John Rodney ... Adam
Harry Carey Jr. ... Prentice
Clifton Young ... The Sergeant
Ernest Severn ... Jeb, age 11
Charles Bates ... Adam, age 11
Peggy Miller ... Thor, age 10
Norman Jolley ... A Callum
Lane Chandler ... A Callum
Elmer Ellingwood ... A Callum
Jack Montgomery ... A Callum
Ray Teal ... Army Captain (scenes deleted)
Erville Alderson ... Townsman at Trial (uncredited)
Virginia Brissac ... Woman at the wedding (uncredited)
Ben Corbett ... Juror (uncredited)
Lester Dorr ... Dingle's Casino Boss (uncredited)
Tom Fadden ... The Minister (uncredited)
Scotty Hugenberg ... Jed, age 4 (uncredited)
Kathy Jeanne Johnson ... Thorley, age 3 (uncredited)
Mickey Little ... Adam, age 4 (uncredited)
Ian MacDonald ... A Callum (uncredited)
Eddy Waller ... Ben McComber (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe ... Coroner (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Niven Busch (screenplay)
Original Music
Max Steiner
Cinematography
James Wong Howe
Trivia
The film Jim Morrison (lead singer of The Doors) watched on the night he died (July 3, 1971).
Goofs
Revealing mistakes
After Adam is shot, a dummy is used to show his body rolling down the hill. The incline is not great and a stuntman could easily have been used, so the obvious dummy is a jarring note.
Although some of the outdoor vistas are breathtaking, the standard establishing shot of the ranch is shot indoors with a quite obvious painted canvas backdrop.
Filming Locations
Gallup, New Mexico, USA
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA (studio)