Hitchcock in Vertigo (1958) looks at man's desire to create his dream woman. The movie’s response is that the dream woman remains a fantasy and never materializes. The triumph of fantasy, when Judy appears, as Madeleine, although overwhelming is short-lived. Bernard Hermann composed the movie’s celebrated score with inspiration from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, reflecting on the story of an impossible love on earth, embracing mystical death to resurrect their love

The last major western of Anthony Mann, possibly his best. The leading character, Link Jones, follows the archetypal revenge path of Mann’s protagonist, though in this movie, the revenge, unlike his movies with Jimmy Stewart, is initially not self-conscious. On his arrival at the shack where his ex-gang members live, in response to one of them asking how he found the place, he states, “I stumbled into it.” Mann returns to the theme of violence as the undercurrent of relations