Starring Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan

A wounded millionaire, abandoned in the scorching Mojave desert by his wife and her lover, is determined to prove that an easy life has not sapped his will to survive.
Robert Ryan gives a virtuoso performance in this tense drama about a man's lonely life-and-death struggle with the elements.
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