Foxfire is a 1955 American drama romance western film released by Universal-International, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, and Dan Duryea.

[2] After her car breaks down in the Arizona desert, New York socialite Amanda Lawrence accepts a ride from Jonathan Dartland, a mining engineer, and his friend Hugh Slater, a doctor with a penchant for liquor.

Dart works in the mining community of Lodestone for Tyson Copper, where women are not welcome because of miners' superstitions, but wants to re-open the abandoned "foxfire" shaft, where he hopes to find a legendary vein of gold.

Amanda adjusts easily to the rustic living conditions of Lodestone, and to the meddling opinions of the wife of the mine superintendent Jim Mablett, but feels devalued when Dart apparently does not want children.

Informed at the airport by Maria that he's been hurt, Amanda rushes back, where Dart admits that the mine collapse showed him that he needs her and is no longer afraid of love.

"[12] Linda Christian was to play the role of the girl in love with Chandler, but Universal decided to cast her in another film and gave her part to Mara Corday.

A.H. Weiler of the New York Times said: "Jeff Chandler, who wrote the lyrics of the title tune, and who, we are told, sings it, does well by the role of the brooding, brawny and handsome engineer.

Her cheerfully sincere efforts to make her marriage work are worthy of sympathy, but, all things considered, Mr. Chandler's acting rings truer.

"[16] Saturday Review said: "[T]he [role of the] socialite, well played by Jane Russell is a surprising sensible girl ... Ketti Fring's script probes unusually deep in analyzing the position of women in an Apache tribe and their relationship to their men.

Billboard said of the release: "That very good movie actor, Jeff Chandler, sings pleasantly, albeit with little 'fire,' on the haunting theme from his new picture, Foxfire."