Jul 26 2010
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Jimmy Stewart’s career was doing enormous in 1950, and hardly needed a boost, but nonetheless, he agreed to appear in Anthony Mann’s Western WINCHESTER ‘73, and the always top-notch Stewart’s career took a current and more complex path. In the 1950s, Stewart would obtain eight movies with Mann, and five of them-WINCHESTER ‘73 (1950), BEND OF THE RIVER (1952), THE NAKED SPUR (1953), THE FAR COUNTRY (1954), and THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955) -would be Westerns. These five Westerns fully rival the series of Westerns that John Wayne made with John Ford. They presented the public with a unusual Jimmy Stewart, one consistently beset with tragedy, often driven to the edge of what human beings can absorb. And sometimes, as in THE NAKED SPUR, Stewart would relate a man so driven by the difficulties that life has thrust upon him, that his greatest struggle isn’t with his human enemy so mighty as it is with his highly tenuous grip upon sanity.
Apart from the Native American extras, this film has only five characters: Jimmy Stewart as the bounty hunter seeking a man to net a reward that will allow him to repurchase the ranch he has lost; Janet Leigh as a young girl who has been taken up by an outlaw; Robert Ryan as the outlaw Stewart is after; Ralph Meeker as a dishonorably discharged cavalry officer; and Millard Mitchell as the worn timer whose exact dream is finding a mother lode. It is a immense cast, and the actors all work together in superior fashion. Stewart and Leigh had friendly careers, but both Ryan and Meeker were big actors who never seemed to manage to have the kinds of careers you would have expected them to have. Meeker would turn in heavenly performances in Stanley Kubrick’s PATHS OF GLORY (easily one of Kubrick’s greatest films) and Robert Aldrich’s KISS ME DEADLY, as Mike Hammer, but all in all, he never seemed to salvage the kinds of roles his talent would seem to require. Nonetheless, he is helpful in this film.
There is actually a sixth member of the cast: the San Juan Mountains in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. No director of Westerns was better at integrating the rugged outdoors with his films than Anthony Mann. We all associate, of course, Monument Valley with the Westerns of John Ford, but in Ford’s films the fabulous landscapes functioned more like decoration. They were backdrops for the stories being told. But in Anthony Mann’s films, the land itself was an integral section of the action. That is especially fair of THE NAKED SPUR. Both at the beginning and the slay of the movie, the hunters ogle their prey in a locale higher than they are at. But throughout, the land is palpably a allotment of the film.
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This film also excels at combining psychological complexity with titanic action sequences. It is a very dynamic movie. Virtually every camera shot catches characters who already in motion. Almost never do we stare a prick with a static character who then begins to go. Instead, every carve finds someone already in the act of doing something. Yet, remarkable of the appeal of the film lies in the psychological and emotional tensions between the different characters.
In other words, anyone who loves Jimmy Stewart, enormous Westerns, or fair flat out sizable cinema, needs to gaze this film.
James Stewart was a different man after he returned from World War II. Although mild valid of playing the lovable, folksy character he played in comedies, his films upon his return from the war sometimes took a hard, even bitter edge. And the majority of these films were the Westerns he made in the 1950s with mountainous director Anthony Mann. Making eight films in all, including non-Westerns such as The Glenn Miller Chronicle and Strategic Air Snarl, they formed one of the strongest bodies of work between a director and actor in Hollywood history.
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Beginning in 1950 with “Winchester ‘73″, Stewart and Mann made Westerns that belied many of the typical genre films of that era. Stewart’s heroes, instead of being stalwart, correct and likable, were often times somewhat shady, improper, and not always likable. Of all of their substantial Westerns, including “Winchester ‘73,” “The Man From Laramie,” “Bend of The River,” and others, probably the best film of their collaboration was “The Naked Spur,” a narrative about a vicious, psychopathic outlaw captured by a group competing with each other to score the bounty on the outlaw’s head. The outlaw, played by indulge in and glee by Robert Ryan, uses the group’s collective and individual greed against them in a scream to speed.
Stewart’s performance is spectacular, ranging wildly from bitter to sympathetic, nervous to resolute, and the rest of the cast is also dynamic and evenly matched. This film was was well worth the wait for DVD, and should be purchased by all Stewart-lovers, Western-lovers, and Ryan-lovers, and perhaps one day, there will be many more Mann-lovers, because he was one of Hollywood’s best directors, and he is largely forgotten today.
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