It was undervalued due to its being a western - John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, director Hawks, and score writer Dimitri Tiomkin should have - at least - received nominations.The main thematic strand that ran throughout the film was the conflict between the changing world of modernity, intellectual reason and enlightened progress vs.The risk-taking film made use of the multi-plane camera (first used in Disney""s own animated, Oscar-winningSilly Symphoniesshort,The Old Mill (1937)) to create an illusion of depth.In the tale""s grim ending, she begged the town""s executioner to chop off her feet to end her incessant dancing, but the shoes continued o dance with her dismembered, amputated feet still inside.