A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Direction
Buñuel's only American film—surrealist eye meets sweaty realism.
Acting
Zachary Scott's warden simmers with unexamined cruelty.
Writing
Peter Matthiessen's script refuses easy villains.
Director
Luis Buñuel
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