295. The Man From Laramie (1955)
Directed By Anthony Mann
Synopsis
A man gets to a town in New Mexico looking for who sold guns to the Apaches that killed his brother! He wants to kill that person! URGH!
Review
Ok I get the idea that Anthony Mann's Westerns with Jimmy Stewart were all very important and all that, but frankly I would have been happier with just watching Winchester'73, which is undoubtedly the best of the five films. Now I've watched three of the 5 and fortunately there are no more.
This is not a bad Western, but it isn't very good or interesting as well, it feels dated, the story feels stale and clichéd, the scenery is pretty and Stewart is charismatic but there are plenty of other Westerns where the scenery is pretty and Jimmy Stewart could be sticking babies on spikes and he would still be charismatic.
And I love Westerns, so I can only imagine how boring this would be for someone who doesn't particularly care for them or even dislikes them. If you love Westens like me, it is entertaining but not riveting... merely watchable, there are plenty of better ones out there. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing that right with it that it would justify your time particularly, when put next to Kiss Me Deadly, the last film watched here, it looks like a dinosaur.
Final Grade
7/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, and thereafter as a novel by publisher Ward Lock in 1955.
Trailer, the statement that Jimmy topples all previous achievements in this film should be used as an example for hyperbole for centuries to come:
Synopsis
A man gets to a town in New Mexico looking for who sold guns to the Apaches that killed his brother! He wants to kill that person! URGH!
Review
Ok I get the idea that Anthony Mann's Westerns with Jimmy Stewart were all very important and all that, but frankly I would have been happier with just watching Winchester'73, which is undoubtedly the best of the five films. Now I've watched three of the 5 and fortunately there are no more.
This is not a bad Western, but it isn't very good or interesting as well, it feels dated, the story feels stale and clichéd, the scenery is pretty and Stewart is charismatic but there are plenty of other Westerns where the scenery is pretty and Jimmy Stewart could be sticking babies on spikes and he would still be charismatic.
And I love Westerns, so I can only imagine how boring this would be for someone who doesn't particularly care for them or even dislikes them. If you love Westens like me, it is entertaining but not riveting... merely watchable, there are plenty of better ones out there. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing that right with it that it would justify your time particularly, when put next to Kiss Me Deadly, the last film watched here, it looks like a dinosaur.
Final Grade
7/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, and thereafter as a novel by publisher Ward Lock in 1955.
Trailer, the statement that Jimmy topples all previous achievements in this film should be used as an example for hyperbole for centuries to come:
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