The Man from Laramie
United States
1955
104 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
Synopsis
Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he’s tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town, his presence a catalyst for changes in people’s lives, searching for someone he doesn’t know…who’s been selling rifles to the Apaches. —IMDb
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Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director.
Born Emil Anton Bundsmann in the Point Loma area of San Diego, Mann was the son of an Austrian immigrant, Emile Theodore Bundsmann, and Bertha Waxelbaum of Macon, Georgia.
Mann started out as an actor, appearing in plays off-Broadway in New York City. In 1938, he moved to Hollywood, where he joined the Selznick International Pictures.
Mann became an assistant director in 1942, directing low-budget assignments for RKO and Republic Pictures.
Mann was respected for his acute visual sensitivity toward the American Western landscape, effortlessly blending natural vistas with human drama. Mann’s dramas verged on classical tragedy, often showing anguished heroes attempting to resolve personal pain and confusion.
In 1967, Mann died from a heart attack in Berlin, Germany while filming the spy thriller A Dandy in Aspic. The film was completed by the film’s star, Laurence Harvey… read more
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Christopher Taylor
5Jul11
James Stewart plays a convincing role in a classic Hollywood era western that strives for a level of realism and characterization uncommon by most standards. An exemplary western.
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Film Forum is presenting a 32-film Anthony Mann retrospective in New York from 25 June - July 15. *** Mann’s Westerns present “both
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By Sudarshan R. on August 28, 2009
In many ways, this film is Mann’s most ambitious western with Jimmy Stewart and yet oddly, Stewart isn’t the main focus of the plot as the titular Man from Laramie. The story is of a decadent pioneer… read review
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