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The Naked Spur (1953) Directed by Anthony Mann

Genre: Western

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. James Stewart is driven to brittle, vindictive, wounded fury when he returns from war to find his fiancée has not only abandoned him but sold his beloved ranch. To get it back he hunts down a killer (Robert Ryan) with a bounty on his head, determined to get even with his enemies by stooping to their level. The crafty outlaw plays Stewart and his two sidekicks against each other, convincing each that the others will try to cheat them out of their share of the payoff, tempting one with an imaginary gold mine and the other with his young female companion, played by Janet Leigh. Stewart is nearly crazed by the attempt to drive himself into an act his decency prohibits; Ryan is charismatic but vicious; Stewart's companions are an old man made stupid by his obsession with finding gold, and a rapist discharged from the cavalry for moral unworthiness. The splendor of the western scenery merely shows up the sordid pettiness of the men traveling through it. Despite the varieties of moral turpitude on display, the act of selling a man for money — even if he is dead, even if he was killed by someone else, and even if he was himself a ruthless killer — is treated with unique revulsion. In giving up his plan, Stewart must give up the idea that wrongs can be righted, that the past can ever be erased.

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