The Tin Star

The Tin Star
by Anthony Mann

The Tin Star
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Actor: Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Henry Fonda, Michel Ray, Neville Brand
Director: Anthony Mann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of The Tin Star

Movie Review: Fonda's only Western with Anthony Mann
Summary: 4 Stars

Although Henry Fonda was not as closely identified with Westerns as his buddy, Jimmy Stewart, he did make this one with Anthony Mann who made several of the best of this genre with Stewart (Man from Laramie, Naked Spur, Far Country, Winchester 78)--a low keyed oater where a seasoned ex-sheriff/bounty hunter (Fonda) shows a inexperienced young sheriff (Tony Perkins) how to survive in the Old West. This film doesn't have as much action as the films Mann did with Stewart but it has some great writing from Dudley Nichols who colloborated with another fine Western director, John Ford, on several films and rich characterizations from John McIntire as a elderly town doctor, Betsy Palmer as a young widow with an half breed child and Neville Brand as the bully/antagonist of the town. I believe the film also received an Oscar nomination for best writing but I think Fonda should've received one for Best Actor as well. The film was a modest success and Fonda would re-create his role for a TV series years later (The Deputy). If you like Westerns with rich characterizations and good writing--do check this out.

Summary of The Tin Star

Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a rather schematic character study about a lawman-turned-bounty-hunter (Henry Fonda) who undertakes the professional shaping-up of an effete young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) too tentative to police the streets of his town. Those streets are compositionally present right outside the oversize window of the office where Perkins undergoes a lot of his soul-searching and arguments with Fonda. That's typical of the film--scrupulously designed, yet abstract to the point of dramatic aridity. The VistaVision black-and-white of cameraman Loyal Griggs (Oscar?-winner for Shane) is at once stark and glossy. Fonda's own reclamation as a social being is accomplished by way of a not-very-interesting subplot involving Betsy Palmer and a half-breed child played by Michel Ray. --Richard T. Jameson

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