Rancho Notorious | |
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Directed by | Fritz Lang |
Screenplay by | Daniel Taradash |
Story by | Silvia Richards |
Produced by | Howard Welsch |
Starring | Marlene Dietrich Arthur Kennedy Mel Ferrer |
Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
Edited by | Otto Ludwig |
Music by | Emil Newman |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Fidelity Pictures Corporation |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Rancho Notorious is a 1952 American Technicolor western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called Chuck-a-Luck, named after the game of chance referenced in the film. Arthur Kennedy and Mel Ferrer play rivals for her attention in this tale of frontier revenge.
The film was originally titled Chuck-a-Luck, with “The Legend of Chuck-a-Luck” as the title song, but the name was changed at the insistence of Howard Hughes, then head of RKO Pictures.[2]