The Man From Laramie

There should be a word for the feeling of peace that flows through me when I watch a Mann-Stewart Western. It's what I imagine sleepy milk-drunk babies feel when they're swaddled.

carrieandtracy

One of my generally unspoken (til now!) fears is that I'll never see the world. I don't make a lot of money, and I'm not particularly adventurous when it comes down to it. But I have a short list of places and things I want to see one day (the Grand Canyon, the Redwoods,…

Sally Jane Black

All of the themes of the Mann/Stewart westerns are here: the loneliness, even bitterness, of being a rugged individualist; the brittleness of patriarchal authority and control; the potential of the gun to corrupt, corrode and destroy those who try to wield its power, the…

Jamelle Bouie

Action!: MANN MEN - Anthony Takes It All! For what would be Mann's final Western with Stewart, they go all in with a film that feels slightly more adult and grim than their prior works. Also, the picture was one of the first Westerns to use Cinemascope, primarily to…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

72 An exploration of property and wealth in the Wild West, sure, but also a quietly devastating portrait of a man without a past to consider, a figure in the process of becoming a campfire tale.

SilentDawn

Spoilers ahead. The key line, I think, in The Man from Laramie, is spoken by Alec Waggoman, when he tells stranger Will Lockhart the following: "I've had to make some hard decisions, but I've never done anything I was ashamed of." The crux of the film isn't good versus…

sakana1

Just a straight-up near-perfect western. Mann, Boetticher and even Ford were making revisionist westerns a decade before anyone thought to call them that.

Jake Cole

The War of the Roses becomes the War of the Tumbleweeds in “The Man from Laramie.”  The last collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, “Laramie” depicts an intergenerational land dispute between ranching families. There seemed to be a clash of personalities…

theriverjordan

To say Anthony Mann and James Stewart end their run of Western films on a high note might be an understatement: "The Man from Laramie" is likely one of the finest Westerns ever made. Mann takes to the CinemaScope format with zeal—the visual canvas here is impossibly wide,…

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