The Naked Spur (1952)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:9
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: After being duped by his faithless wife, Howard Kemp, a Civil War veteran and former rancher, accepts work as a bounty hunter. His assignment: bring back a ferret-eyed outlaw from the... [More]
Starring: James Stewart, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker
Director: Anthony Mann
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Reviews for The Naked Spur
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In this taut revenge Western, from Oscar-nominated script by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, Jimmy Stewart gives one of his best performances, revealing a darker facet to his screen persona that only a superb director like Anthony Mann could bring out Full Review |
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Mann never failed to deliver an astonishing ending to his Westerns, but this is one of his best. Full Review |
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...an engrossing little film that doesn't flinch from showing us the worst in people, including the hero. Full Review |
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Wonderfully intense psychological Western built around a simple story of greed and the chance to start life over again after failure. Full Review |
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One of Stewart's best tortured performances, showing his dark side. A must-see for Stewart buffs.
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This 1953 film has Janet Leigh in jeans, beautiful location shooting (and Technicolor cinematography) in the Rockies, and some of the most intense psychological warfare to be found in [director Anthony] Mann's angular and anguished oeuvre. Full Review |
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