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The Man from Laramie is a american film of genre Drama directed by Anthony Mann released in USA on 31 august 1955 with James Stewart
The Man from Laramie (1955)
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Add to a movie listThe Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell.
Written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, the film is about a stranger who defies a local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals. The film 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 in 1955.
The Man from Laramie was one of the first Westerns to be filmed in CinemaScope to capture the vastness of the scenery. The film was also shot in Technicolor. This is the fifth and final Western collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart.
Synopsis
Will Lockhart (James Stewart) becomes entangled in the happenings of Coronado, an isolated western town, after delivering supplies there from Laramie. He immediately ends up at odds with the Waggomans, an influential ranching family. Lockhart is quietly searching for information about someone selling repeating rifles to the local Apaches; his brother, an Army cavalry trooper, was killed in an Apache attack at Dutch Creek.Actors
James Stewart
(Will Lockhart)
John Arthur Kennedy
(Vic Hansbro)
Donald Crisp
(Alec Waggoman)
Cathy O'Donnell
(Barbara Waggoman)
Alex Nicol
(Dave Waggoman)
Anthony Mann
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