Columbia Pictures
Directed by John Farrow
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
A sheriff and his prisoner crash land in the Pacific and wash up on a remote sheep ranch in California. Jean Simmons is the pretty sheep herder who lives with her father, an Oxford philosophy professor fed up with mankind. She's never seen a man before, so of course falls for the young prisoner Rory Calhoun. She's soon on his side of the conflict, providing him with a gun and a way out. The man may be innocent anyway, a fact not lost on her father when he returns home. There is some fighting, some philosophizing, lots of rain and overly wrought music by Dmitri Tiomkin. Simmons never cracks a smile and has zero chemistry with Calhoun, ruining the most important relationship in the film. Incredibly, it has a happy ending.
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