The Man from Laramie (1955)

Directed by

Anthony Mann

Genre

drama film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 261 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A stranger rides into a small town where a cattle baron and his cruel son rule with an iron fist. He takes a job with an older rancher who is one of the baron's rivals, setting off a chain of revenge and conflict.

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What happens

The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell. Written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, the film is about a stranger who defies a local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of their oldest rivals. The film was adapted from a serial of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, and thereafter as a novel in 1955. Shot in Technicolor, The Man from Laramie was one of the first Westerns to be filmed in CinemaScope to capture the vastness of the scenery. This is the fifth and final Western collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart, the other four being Winchester '73 (1950), Bend of the River (1952), The Naked Spur (1953) and The Far Country (1954). Mann and Stewart also collaborated on three other films: Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and Strategic Air Command (1955). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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