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India Press Store - Naked Spur
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Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell
Directed By: Anthony Mann
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302032239
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302032237
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1994-04-25
Running Time: 91
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: 1953-02
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Summary: One of the Great Westerns
Comment: Tough and uncompromising, "The Naked Spur" (1953) is a classic Western with James Stewart and director Anthony Mann at the top of their game. Stunningly filmed in the Colorado Rockies, this psychological bounty-hunter odyssey makes the most of Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom's Oscar-nominated screenplay. Excellent performances by Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker and Millard Mitchell prove an ideal match for Stewart's emotional intensity. William C. Mellor's Technicolor cinematography deserves the highest praise. Along with "Winchester '73" (1950), the finest of the Stewart-Mann collaborations.
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Summary: James Stewart Classic!
Comment: The best print you will ever see. The Naked Spur has an enthusiastic cast lead by hard-nosed bounty hunter Stewart and a great cast of supporting characters. Janet Leigh is great as always as is Ralph Meeker and Millard Mitchell but it is Robert Ryan who has the most fun.
The scenery is awsome.
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Summary: The Naked Spur
Comment: While the acting wasn't bad for it's day the movie it self less than steller..... you can spend your time and money on better.
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Summary: good old oldies
Comment: Jimmy is always tops as a cowboy in westerns. He has that certain type of drawl one never gets tired of listening to.
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Summary: Melodramatic western
Comment: This is a very predictable, corny, melodramatic western. The script is the worst part, filled with cliches. The acting is okay, although villains Robert Ryan and Ralph Meeker laugh and smirk all through the film. The highlight is the great western scenery. But Shane this isn't.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Anthony Mann-Jimmy Stewart Westerns in the 1950s infused the genre with a psychological intensity and psychopathic edge. The brutal The Naked Spur, their third collaboration, is generally considered their best work together and one of the finest Westerns ever made. Stewart is a hard, angry bounty hunter tracking outlaw Robert Ryan in this lean five-character drama set in a deceptively beautiful mountain wilderness. Stewart finds himself saddled with two unwanted partners, sourdough prospector Millard Mitchell (his sidekick in the earlier Mann Western Winchester '73) and dishonorably discharged cavalry officer Ralph Meeker. Ryan's tomboyish sidekick Janet Leigh becomes increasingly torn between duty to her desperate guardian and her growing attraction to Stewart. The rugged landscape of jutting peaks, narrow passes, and torrential rivers is as gorgeous as it is dangerous: a well-protected plateau becomes a sniper's perch, an old mine turns from protective cave to dangerous cave-in. Stewart delivers the most ruthless performance of his career as a man haunted by betrayal, unwilling to trust and unable to love. Ryan's jovial banter and charm masks a cold-blooded savagery (he once remarked that it's his favorite performance). The tension stretches to the breaking point in this taut battle of wits, which culminates in a standoff next to the white water of a raging river, where Mann brilliantly uses the jagged landscape as a deadly battleground--nature itself becomes an enemy. --Sean Axmaker
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