Track of the Cat (1954)

Track of the Cat (1954) is a snow-bound William A. Wellman squabblin family revenge against an animal existential and yet pathos laden wild panther ravaging bold moral allegory psychological western with a slight tendency to be classed as part film noir, part adventure, part melodrama, a part western and part ethical fable, starring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn, Tab Hunter, Beulah Bondi, Philip Tonge, William Hopper and Carl Switzer as Joe Sam, a case of a non-Indigenous actor performing an Indigenous role, as such a racial impersonation of Native American, or more specifically speaking, the colonial representational practice commonly referred to as redface.