Yellow Sky (1948) directed by William Wellman. Cinematography by Joe McDonald.

A bandit posse escapes a police posse by riding through a hellish desert to end up in a ghost town only inhabited by an old man and his daughter who have a secret of their own to hide. A Western Indeed.

The gun toting mean desert country girl is played by Frank Lloyd Wright‘s granddaughter Anne Baxter.

“I sure never thought I’d ever do this but I guess I’m gonna have to trade whiskey for some of that water…”. In Death Valley, Badwater Basin

Lone Pine’s Alabama Hills

A ghost town was built for the movie by artfully destroying a set used since the 1920’s.