TITLE...........: Desert Fury (1947)
STARS...........: Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster
DIRECTOR........: Lewis Allen
WRITERS.........: Robert Rossen
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
TOMATOMETER.....: 67/59
IMDB SCORE......: 6.5
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039311
RUNTIME.........: 1h 35mn
SIZE............: 6.27 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1464x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.36:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by film historian Imogen Sara Smith
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Kino Lorber Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2024-03-21


Desert Fury is a rarety for the 1940s, a Technicolor "film noir." Set in a Nevada gambling town, the story concerns the various misadventures, romantic and otherwise, of Paula Haller (Lizabeth Scott), the rebellious daughter of gambling-house proprietress Fritzie Haller (Mary Astor, who steals the picture). Though no better than she ought to be, Fritzie is determined that Paula will not grow up as a "shady lady", but she'd fighting an uphill battle. John Hodiak plays crooked gambler Eddie Bendix (John Hodiak), who tries to exploit Paula's fascination with him for his own gain. Thank heaven that upright lawman Tom Hanson (Burt Lancaster) is on hand to rescue the heroine from the machinations of Bendix and his partner-in-perfidy Johnny Ryan (Wendell Corey). Desert Fury was adapted from the far racier and more explicit novel by Ramona Stewart