Track of the Cat is a 1954 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Diana Lynn.

As the family tensely await their return, Harold who avoids conflict with his parents, is gently encouraged by Gwen to assert his claim to an equal share of the ranch.

Although Grace tries to support her youngest brother and his fiancée, Ma Bridges is hatefully suspicious of Gwen, who ignores the family’s histrionics calmly for Harold’s sake.

And the business of the brother hunting the panther in the great big CinemaScope outdoors, while the family booze and blather in the ranch-house, has the nature of an entirely different show ...

The Richmond News Leader called it "gloomy"[4] but a review in The Spokesman-Review categorized Track of the Cat as "another psychological puzzler, but easily one of the best of the year.

The haunting luminous look created was very effective in charging the film with the sub-textual sexual energy that lingers from the hot melodramatics and also giving it an alluring aura of mystery.

"[6] Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that it was "one of the strangest films ever to have come out of Hollywood...Wellman designed most of the film in black and white but shot it in color as well as CinemaScope (William H. Clothier’s cinematography is stunning), yielding a drama of the 1880s that alternates between stylized, claustrophobic sets and spacious locations...Bertrand Tavernier has compared it to the work of Dreyer, and it’s certainly the closest that American cinema has ever come to Ordet.