The Man from Laramie
(1955)The Man from Laramie 1955
The film follows Anthony Mann's James Stewart, who portrays depressed cowboys and Hitchcock's self-doubtful characters in parallel in the 1950s, and Anthony Mann will soon become a bigger (and maybe even bigger) actor like El Cid (1961). will also undertake less interesting) projects. - the last of a series of extraordinary westerns he directed. A story reminiscent of 1971's Get Carter, almost film noir. While searching for the truth about his brother's death, Will Lockhart (Stewart) finds himself entangled in the family affairs of King Learvari, a wealthy farmer (Donald Crisp) who is blind and whose beloved son (Alex Nichol) exhibits sadistic tendencies. The scene in which Nicol orders his men to grab Stuart and shoot the hero in the arm at close range as a diet to the wound shocked the audience of the era. Butler Vic Hansbrough (Arthur Kennedy) is almost the masculine equivalent of the protagonist (as in Mann's 1952 western The Bend of the River - The Bouncer Caravan), but runs their farm while doing the dirty job of selling rifles to rebel Apaches. . He becomes his enemy because of the resentment of a family he can never inherit. With its unforgettable music ("The West will never see a man with so many nicks on his gun") and "a dangerous atmosphere that highlights how desperate and obsessive people are with one another and their extreme psychological state," "The Law of Revenge" is a distinctive feature. It was manna. A tense and tragic story.
