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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0012569792463
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 9987
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1953-02
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
'Plain arithmetic. Money splits better two ways instead of three,' smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas. If he can set the men against each other ? play on their greed, their fears, their vanities ? he may be able to make his break to freedom.
In the third of his five landmark Anthony Mann-directed westerns, James Stewart stars as the relentless leader of bounty hunters caught in the snare of the hunted (Robert Ryan). Tough, sweating with tension, and towering as tall as its breathtaking Colorado Rockies setting, The Naked Spur is simply 'one of the best Westerns ever made' (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide).
Year: 1953
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, Millard Mitchell
Running Time: 91 min.
Format: DVD MOVIE
Amazon.com:
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. Stewart is a hard, angry bounty hunter tracking outlaw Robert Ryan in this lean five-character drama set in a deceptively beautiful mountain wilderness. Stewart finds himself saddled with two unwanted partners, sourdough prospector Millard Mitchell (his sidekick in the earlier Mann Western Winchester '73) and dishonorably discharged cavalry officer Ralph Meeker. Ryan's tomboyish sidekick Janet Leigh becomes increasingly torn between duty to her desperate guardian and her growing attraction to Stewart. The rugged landscape of jutting peaks, narrow passes, and torrential rivers is as gorgeous as it is dangerous: a well-protected plateau becomes a sniper's perch, an old mine turns from protective cave to dangerous cave-in. Stewart delivers the most ruthless performance of his career as a man haunted by betrayal, unwilling to trust and unable to love. Ryan's jovial banter and charm masks a cold-blooded savagery (he once remarked that it's his favorite performance). The tension stretches to the breaking point in this taut battle of wits, which culminates in a standoff next to the white water of a raging river, where Mann brilliantly uses the jagged landscape as a deadly battleground--nature itself becomes an enemy. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One Movie too Many
In all fairness to "The Naked Spur" I watched this movie because it was listed in the book "501 Must-See Movies". OK, that must make it a really good film. Well, I kept waiting for it to get to that level and it never did. I can see some reasons why the movie has its' admirers; it delves into greed with a fair amount of depth, Jimmie Stewart gives a pretty good preformance, the setting/cinematography is outstanding, there is a continuing level of suspense, etc. However, I thought the movie moved ... Read More
Rating:  - The Naked Spur-DVD
Wow...Jimmy Stewart, what more do I need to say! This is a romantic western, and I certainly am enthralled by the unassuming beauty of Janet Leigh. That it is not filmed in a western town environment, makes no difference. The scenic views and natural background of the flowing rivers and streams makes this surreal. It is a very good romantic western movie featuring one of my all time males western stars. However, I can see where Jamie Lee got her great looks, as her mom is a real beauty in her own rights.
Rating: - DRAMATIC WESTERN OF A BYGONE ERA
A group of people thrown together by circumstance of a $5000.00 reward poster for a back-shooting murder that earlier had taken place in Abilene, Kansas.
Jimmy Stewart heads an all star cast in this 3rd meeting and picture of Stewart and Anthony Mann. Seldom on the screen has there been paired such good as personified by Janet Leigh juxtaposed with such evil as Robert Ryan. Ralph Meeker, disgraced-discharged soldier, and Millard Mitchell, burnt out miner-prospector, throw in with ... Read More
Rating: - Savage, Elemental Western
The Naked Spur was the third of five Westerns director Anthony Mann would make with Jimmy Stewart in the first half of the '50's. These works stand alongside Stewart's 50's films with Hitchcock as going along way to revise his "aw shucks," light comic persona. For Hitchcock, Stewart played obsessive, neurotic characters; for Mann he was that too, with an added capacity for violence that is as convincingly portrayed as is is unexpected. Looking at both ends of Stewart's emotional spectrum by watching The Naked ... Read More
Rating:  - Stewart & Mann pair for noir Western
This psychological dark Western, the third out west pairing for Stewart & Anthony Mann ranks a close second to I think, their best and last outing, "The Man from Laramie" which was their only film in Cinemascope. Filmed brilliantly in the Colorado Rockies, "Spur" tells the story of a dispossessed Civil War veteran (Stewart) out to collect the bounty on a vicious outlaw (Robert Ryan) but he encounters some obtstacles along the way--a dishonored Army officier (Ralph Meeker) and the outlaw's squeeze (Janet Leigh). ... Read More
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