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Information
- Year
- 1955
- Runtime
- 103 min.
- Director
- Anthony Mann
- Genre
- Western
- Rating *
- 7.4
- Votes *
- 4,142
- Checks
- 1,792
- Favs
- 107
- Dislikes
- 9
- Favs/checks
- 6.0% (1:17)
- Favs/dislikes
- 12:1
Top comments
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Pike
Excellent film, with a simple plot yet complicated and interesting characters who are not as they seem to be. The use of the then-new Cinemascope is beautiful. A must see for fans of the genre. 8 years 1 month ago -
thetramp
Great film and great western. Maybe the best of the Stewart and Mann collaborations too. 5 years 5 months ago -
Siskoid
The Anthony Mann/James Stewart partnership is basically the reason why I'll always press Play on either of their westerns, be they together or not. To call The Man from Laramie Shakespearean might be overstating it, but their final collaboration of certainly has the kind of tragic family set-up you'd expect from the Bard. Stewart shows up in a rather unfriendly town and almost immediately runs afoul of the brutish son of the local land baron, but we're not sure if he's sticking around to get revenge, to get the girl, or because he's on a personal mission that has led him here (though the mystery is perhaps not that much of a mystery given what villains exist to fit the bill). It's a tangled web of intriguing characters, each caught up in their own plot, and the western tropes that perhaps weren't so old in 1955, often manage a surprising twist that keeps this one entertaining even decades on. 2 years 1 month ago
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This movie ranks #52 in BFI's 100 Westerns
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This movie ranks #243 in BFI's 360 Classic Feature Films Project
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This movie ranks #264 in Eureka!'s The Masters of Cinema Series
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This movie ranks #505 in David Thomson's Have You Seen?
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This movie ranks #744 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
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