Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Man from LaramieFormat: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 02/08/2000Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex NicolDirector: Anthony MannAudio Language: Unqualified, English, English, Spanish, English, SpanishRuntime: 1 hour and 42 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentSubtitle Language: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, ThaiCertificate: MPAA Not RatedDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION An intensely satisfying drama of rugged primitive justice, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE marked the final, and finest, collaboration of one of the most important teams in Western films: director Anthony Mann and star Jimmy Stewart. Together this perfectly-matched pair provided audiences with eight classic pictures, including Winchester '73 and Stategic Air Command. Under Mann's superb direction, Stewart departs from his well-loved "ordinary hero" role and gives a riveting performance as a resolute vigilante obsessed with finding the man responsible for his brother's death. Among the suspects are an arrogant cattle baron (Donald Crisp), his sadistic son (Alex Nicol) and his ranch foreman (Arthur Kennedy, in the best performance of his career). One explosive confrontation, in which Stewart is dragged by a wild horse and shot in the hand at close range, is one of movie history's most memorable sequences. Among the first Westerns filmed in CinemaScope, THE MAN FROM LARAMIE uses the widescreen techn AMAZON Only John Ford excelled Anthony Mann as a purveyor of eye-filling Western imagery, and Mann's best films are second to no one's when it comes to the fusion of dynamic action, rugged landscapes, and fierce psychological intensity. The Man from Laramie is the last of five remarkable Westerns the director made with James Stewart (starting with Winchester '73 and peaking with The Naked Spur). This collaboration marked virtually a whole new career for Stewart, whose characters are all haunted by the past and driven by obsession--here, to find whoever set his cavalry-officer brother in the path of warlike Indians. The Man from Laramie aspires to an epic grandeur beyond its predecessors. It's the only one in CinemaScope, and Stewart's personal quest is subsumed in a larger drama--nothing less than a sagebrush version of King Lear, with a range baron on the verge of blindness (Donald Crisp), his weak and therefore vicious son (Alex Nicol), and another, apparently more solid "son," his Edmund-like foreman (Arthur Kennedy). There are a few too many subsidiary characters, and the reach for thematic complexity occasionally diminishes the impact. But no one will ever forget the scene on the salt flats between Nicol and Stewart--climaxing in the single most shocking act of violence in '50s cinema--or the final, mountaintop confrontation. For decades, the film has been seen only in washed-out, pan-and-scan videos, with the characters playing visual hopscotch from one panel of the original composition to another. It's great to have this glorious DVD--razor-sharp, fully saturated (or as saturated as '50s Eastmancolor could be), and breathtaking in its CinemaScope sweep. --Richard T. JamesonDVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Title: The Man from Laramie
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
Language: Spanish
Actor: Alex Nicol
No Of Discs: 1
Subtitle Language: Thai
EAN: 0043396041707
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Release Date: 02/08/2000
Producer: Christopher Webster, Clive Barker, William Goetz
Movie/TV Title: The Man from Laramie
Director: Anthony Mann
Run Time: 104 min.
Format: DVD
Release Year: 1955
Genre: Westerns
Studio: Sony Pictures