Louis Hayward

By 1949, Fritz Lang had been exiled to “poverty row”. Though stuck with a small budget and no stars, the noir master used the creative freedom to make one of the eeriest, most downright Lynchian thrillers of his storied career. Long buried, it’s been revived with a shot at getting its due.

Ten strangers are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are being killed off one-by-one. Trying to keep their wits, the survivors reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

A gunfighter makes peace between Indians and soldiers at a nearby fort.