The Man From Laramie
by Anthony Mann
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Actor: Alex Nicol, Arthur Kennedy, Cathy O'Donnell, Donald Crisp, James StewartDirector: Anthony Mann
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Charles Lang
Editor: William A. Lyon
Producer: William Goetz
Writer: Frank Burt
Writer: Philip Yordan
Writer: Thomas T. Flynn
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Man From Laramie
Movie Review: Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stewart deliver the goods
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1950, film noir director Anthony Mann and acting legend Jimmy Stewart teamed up to form one of the most creative, legendary and lucrative collaborations of all time, rivaling the classic duo of Ford and Wayne. Winchester 73 was the first in five movies the two legends would make together. The last of the five was...
The Man From Laramie (1955)
Stewart plays an ex army captain seeking revenge for the death of his brother. His search leads him to Coronado, a town owned by iron fisted rancher Alec Waggoman played by the always enjoyable Donald Crisp.
Stewart ends up in the middle of Waggoman family politics while he deals with his own feelings of loss, anger and pain. Mann movies always seem to have hints of King Lear in them and this movie is no exception. There is Waggomans spoiled and psychotic son Dave played by Alex Nicol and the seemingly more level headed ranch foreman Vic played by Arthur Kennedy, both of whom are vying to be Crisps successor.
The movie also features an enjoyable performance by Aline MacMahon as the last rancher who's land Crisp hasn't gobbled up yet and who seeks Stewarts aid in dealing with an escalating ranch war. She is wonderfully sassy and her and Stewart play well off each other.
There is an amazing scene where an angry Nicol, stinging from a humiliating defeat by Stewart, shoots Stewart in the hand point blank. It is an intense, violent, almost violating act and Stewart plays it brilliantly. The act is so violent that even Nicols men seem shocked. They, rather gently, help Stewart put his gun belt back on, and help him on his horse.
A slumped and beaten Stewart slowly rides off.
It is probably one of the most memorable scenes in movie western history. The finale is pure Mann.
Seeing this restored technicolor gem in its original aspect was a real treat. I don't think that Stewart would have been as convincing as "Ransom Stoddard" in MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) if it had not been for his tenure with Mann.
Stewarts work in the films of Anthony Mann informs his performance in "Liberty Valance". Sergio Leone commented that "Valance" was his favorite Ford film because he felt Ford seemed to have discovered "pessimism". Perhaps Ford was influenced by Mann as much as Mann was by Ford. At any rate, a truly great film.
Summary of The Man From Laramie
About a man seeking revenge against the men responsible for his brothers death. Special features: full screen and widescreen versions subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai original theatrical poster production notes interactive menus scene selections. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: James Stewart Arthur Kennedy Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Anthony MannOnly John Ford excelled Anthony Mann as a purveyor of eye-filling Western imagery, and Mann's best films are second to no one's when it comes to the fusion of dynamic action, rugged landscapes, and fierce psychological intensity. The Man from Laramie is the last of five remarkable Westerns the director made with James Stewart (starting with Winchester '73 and peaking with The Naked Spur). This collaboration marked virtually a whole new career for Stewart, whose characters are all haunted by the past and driven by obsession--here, to find whoever set his cavalry-officer brother in the path of warlike Indians.
The Man from Laramie aspires to an epic grandeur beyond its predecessors. It's the only one in CinemaScope, and Stewart's personal quest is subsumed in a larger drama--nothing less than a sagebrush version of King Lear, with a range baron on the verge of blindness (Donald Crisp), his weak and therefore vicious son (Alex Nicol), and another, apparently more solid "son," his Edmund-like foreman (Arthur Kennedy). There are a few too many subsidiary characters, and the reach for thematic complexity occasionally diminishes the impact. But no one will ever forget the scene on the salt flats between Nicol and Stewart--climaxing in the single most shocking act of violence in '50s cinema--or the final, mountaintop confrontation.
For decades, the film has been seen only in washed-out, pan-and-scan videos, with the characters playing visual hopscotch from one panel of the original composition to another. It's great to have this glorious DVD--razor-sharp, fully saturated (or as saturated as '50s Eastmancolor could be), and breathtaking in its CinemaScope sweep. --Richard?T. Jameson
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