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The Naked Spur is a american film of genre Drama directed by Anthony Mann released in USA on 6 february 1953 with James Stewart
The Naked Spur (1953)
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Add to a movie listThe Naked Spur is a 1953 Technicolor American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, and Robert Ryan. Written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, the film is about a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice, and is forced to accept the help of two strangers who are less than trustworthy. The original music score was composed by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography was by William C. Mellor. The Naked Spur was filmed on location in Durango and the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, and Lone Pine, California. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay—a rare honor for a Western. This is the third Western film collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart.
Synopsis
In March 1868, Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is tracking Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan), who is wanted for the murder of the marshal in Abilene, Kansas.Actors
James Stewart
(Howard Kemp)
Janet Leigh
(Lina Patch)
Robert Ryan
(Ben Vandergroat)
Ralph Meeker
(Roy Anderson)
Millard Mitchell
(Jesse Tate)
Anthony Mann
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(1952)
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