The Man from Laramie

5/29/2017

You Scum! Will Lockhart (James Stewart) leaves his home in Laramie on a mission to find out who was responsible for selling repeating rifles to the Apaches who killed his brother. Landing in Coronado, New Mexico, he finds that most of the territory is owned and ruled by Alec Waggoman (Donald Crisp), a fierce patriarchal rancher with one loose cannon son, Dave (Alex Nicol) and another surrogate son, Vic Hansboro (Arthur Kennedy) running the Barb Ranch. As he digs deeper, Lockhart finds he is in the middle of two wars, one of which may eventually conclude his revenge fuelled mission. The Man From Laramie is the last of the five Westerns that director Anthony Mann made with leading man James Stewart. The only one filmed in CinemaScope, it is a visually stylish picture that is full of br

9/19/2024

**_Mid-50's Anthony Mann Western with Jimmy Stewart and Arthur Kennedy_** Jimmy Stewart stars as the titular man who meets a storekeeper (Cathy O'Donnell) while delivering supplies to a Southwestern town in Apache territory. It doesn't take long for him to clash with the rash son of domineering rancher (Alex Nicol and Donald Crisp). Despite the mounting tensions, he stays in town perhaps because he's sweet on the woman, but so is the rancher's formidable foreman (Arthur Kennedy). More importantly, he's searching for the mystery man who's been selling rifles to the Apaches. Disregarding the hopelessly hokey title song during the opening & ending credits, Anthony Mann's "The Man from Laramie" (1955) is a winning mid-50's Western, the last of five Westerns Mann did with Stewart and eas

2/1/2026

When freight-man “Lockhart” (James Stewart) tries to take some salt from the local flats to trade, he falls foul of “Dave” (Alex Nicol) who just happens to be the wayward son of local boss “Alec” (Donald Crisp). It’s only the intervention of ranch foreman “Vic” (Arthur Kennedy) that enables him to escape with his life, but now bereft of his wagons and his mules, he vows to stick around long enough to set matters straight. “Alec” is a firm but reasonable man, and when he hears of what happened offers restitution, but by now “Lockhart” and the loose-cannon that is “Dave” are at a loggerheads that is going to make the former man’s life, and his friendship with his original employer “Barbara” (Cathy O’Donnell) - who is engaged to “Vic” - pretty hairy. Gradually, as this scenario smoulders away