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Powerful western
This ambitious western concerns a corrupt landowning family (the Waggomans) who finally disintegrate when an outsider, Will Lockhart (James Stewart in his best role for Mann), is drawn into its closed world.

Mann's dramatic presentation, here as in most of his 50s westerns, is Shakesperian in its power and intensity. Mann's widescreen compositions of the 50s are among the best uses of that then fresh format when people were still exploring its possibilities. His landscapes create a superbly configured canvas against which the conflicts are played out.

Donald Crisp is the family patriarch (going blind in more than just a physical sense) who is preoccupied with dynastic succession. His natural son (Alex Nicol) is a psychopath who, early in the film, overturns and brutally burns Stewart's trading wagons, shoots his mules and has him roped and dragged through the dirt, all in a pitiful bid to assert his authority in front of his men. In a later incident, he shoots Stewart's hand at point blank range, as if castrating him (a violent and potent sequence). Crisp's foreman and surrogate son (Arthur Kennedy in a fine performance) feigns worthiness but plots to usurp the succession and betray his father-surrogate.

Stewart as catalyst and protagonist, fulfils his own quest for justice and revenge with an obsession/pathology bordering on madness. Strong stuff!

The Man From Laramie
This movie are a little bit violent , but not as today?s junk movies . The plot are great and made outdore in parts in New Mexico .Superb quality of the transfer from film into digital DVD with sharp and vivid color , a truly recommendation to all your Western freaks how love all those 1950?s movie

A dark, brooding Western from James Stewart
During the 1950's James Stewart made a wonderful series of Westerns with Anthony Mann: "Winchester 73," "Bend of the River," "The Naked Spur," and "The Man from Laramie." This is perhaps the darkest of them. Stewart plays a man bent on revenge, and that desire promises to destroy him in the long run. His brother's cavalry troop was wiped out by the Apaches, and he's searching for the man who sold them the rifles. His search takes him to a New Mexico town controlled by rancher Donald Crisp, a man who "owns a thousand acres and can't see ten of them." Crisp has a son (played by Alex Nicol) who's no good. He's a vicious, sadistic spolied rich kid. Arthur Kennedy plays the adopted son who looks after the ranch and watches after Nicol. But he resents being left in the shadow. Stewart finds himself in a a potentially explosive situation. If I say any more, I'm afraid I'll spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it. Suffice it to say that this is one of Stewart's best Westerns, not to mention one of the best Westerns made during the fifties.

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