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On a remote ranch in Northern California in the early 1900s, the Bridges family spends a harsh winter together and quarrels constantly. Curt is crude and quarrelsome, and he bullies Arthur, his older brother, while Harold, the youngest, takes the same treatment in silence. Their mother is a religious zealot full of bigotry, and their father is a drunk who pities himself. Grace, unmarried and bitter, is gladdened when Gwen, Harold's fiancée, arrives. Joe Sam, the Indian hand hired to work the ranch, brings news of a panther in the hills; a panther wiped out his own family years earlier, and Joe Sam's dread of the animal irritates Curt. Curt and Arthur set out to track it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Track of the Cat (1954)
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- Director William A. Wellman designed Track of the Cat to look like a black-and-white movie shot in color, keeping almost everything in subdued greys so that only the blue matches, the fire and Robert Mitchum's red coat stand out.
- The outdoor scenes were shot on Mount Rainier in Washington, where Robert Mitchum regarded the deep snow and cold as the worst filming conditions he had ever experienced.
