Desert Fury was directed by Lewis Allen and features a screenplay by A.I. Bezzerides and Robert Rossen, adapted from Ramona Stewart’s novel Desert Town. The film stars Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Mary Astor, Burt Lancaster, and Wendell Corey, with music composed by Miklós Rózsa and cinematography by Edward Cronjager and Charles Lang. What we have here is a curious blend of film noir elements and melodramatic situ…