Gene Hackman delivers a standout performance in this small-scale western. He portrays Zandy, an unyielding rancher who requires a wife for domestic duties and offspring, and arranges for one to come from afar. The bride arrives as Hannah (Liv Ullmann), hailing from Minnesota’s stage scene and transported to the beautiful California coast near Monterey. Hannah has misrepresented her age, and Zandy is immediately hosti…