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Film Appreciation - Other Westerns The film is notable for a number of reasons, not the least of which was its exceptional cinematography (William H. Daniels), and the fact that it facilitated the great revival of westerns in the 1950s. The film is Sergio Leone at his violent best as he chronicles the story of three former enemies who have now become untrustworthy allies in their quest to recover a hidden payroll at the conclusion of the Civil War. The film is a sprawling epic that depicts the development of the West throughout the adventures of one family. www.twyman-whitney.com /film/genre/otherwesterns.html   (4045 words)

DVD Savant Review: Winchester '73 Winchester '73 is a multiple revenge tale with a circular La Ronde structure. Winchester '73 is what film critics call a key western, for it represents a major turn in the genre's development. The film doesn't look as though it's been remastered since the good laserdisc version from 14 years ago, and the bit rate is sometimes on the light side, adding grain and not helping with the overall sharpness. www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s806winch.html   (1936 words)

Winchester '73 (1950 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Winchester '73 is an American western movie from 1950. Winchester '73 at the Internet Movie Database (1967) (TV) Remake of 1950 The films are famous for their groundbreaking use of the landscape to portray the characters' feelings. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winchester_'73_(1950_movie)   (226 words)

Winchester '73 (1950) One of the great Westerns, Winchester '73 is noteworthy film in many respects, not least because it marked the start of one of the great creative partnerships in the genre, that between director Anthony Mann and James Stewart. As Lin McAdam in Winchester '73 he is already hunting someone who has wronged him: "...chasing him since I can't remember" and then, to add to it all, has a prize rifle stolen from him by his prey after an intense competition. In making Winchester '73, Mann was at last given the chance and the budget to make the most of his talents. us.imdb.com /Details?0043137   (1445 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Winchester 73 [1950]: Video Winchester '73 is one of the earliest films (after Hitchcock's Rope) in which we begin to see a slightly darker streak in the characters Stewart would play. Winchester '73 is one of the several successful collaborations between star James Stewart the underrated director Anthony Mann. The film opens with a rifle shooting contest, the winner of which will win a prized Winchester '73 rifle. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R6CN   (702 words)

Current Trends / Sacred Contingencies: The Digital Deconstructions of Raphael Montañez Ortiz by Chon A. Noriega - San Diego Latino Film Festival Web site Two films that survive on video are "Cow-boy" and "Indian" Film (1958), which recycles Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 (1950), and Newsreel (1958), from a Castle Films newsreel featuring the Pope's blessing of a crowd, the Nuremburg trials, and an atomic bomb explosion in the Pacific. In these films, the audiovisual integrity and continuity of shots is destroyed, replaced by a random sequence of image and sound fragments that confound genre expectations. But rather than use film as a material object to be transformed through destruction, Ortiz engages in a digital deconstruction of Hollywood films in a real-time editing process. www.sdlatinofilm.com /trends11.html   (2944 words)

USATODAY.com - 'Gun that Won the West' becoming just part of history The Winchester model 1873 lever action rifle, popular among American frontiersmen at the end of the 19th century for its reliability, inspired the 1950 James Stewart film Winchester '73. President Teddy Roosevelt was also a Winchester devotee, using the 1895 model on his famous 1909 African safari, which historians credited with boosting the sale of Winchester sporting rifles. John Wayne made the Winchester a signature of his movies and Chuck Connors posed menacingly with his Winchester on advertisements for the television series The Rifleman. www.usatoday.com /money/industries/manufacturing/2006-01-18-winchester_x.htm?csp=34   (506 words)

winchester-73 WINCHESTER '73 was a great success at the box office and reestablished Stewart (who was suffering a decline in popularity) as one of Hollywood's top actors. "WINCHESTER '73 was the first of the so-called 'psychological' westerns that became the benchmark of the genre in the 1950s. "WINCHESTER '73 was once a project for Fritz Lang, who worked on the script with Silvia Richards in 1948. yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/w/winchester-73.html   (297 words)

Guardian Unlimited Film News Nathan Juran His last film before returning to architecture was The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973). The Black Castle (1952) was a gothic melodrama with an isolated castle, containing torture chambers and an alligator pit as the backdrop for the tale of a sinister Austrian count, a handsome hero and a damsel in distress. Mention the titles 20 Million Miles To Earth, The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad and First Men In The Moon to a film buff, and the name most likely to come up will be that of the celebrated special effects technician Ray Harryhausen, rather than the director Nathan Juran, who has died aged 95. film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,837627,00.html   (807 words)

Winchester '73 Best Western Movies Winchester '73 is one of my favorite westerns, and I rushed out the first day to buy the DVD. Recorded several years ago for the laserdisc edition of Winchester '73, it provides a rare opportunity to hear a screen legend reminisce (and makes you wish Wayne and Fonda had lived long enough to have offered personal observations about THEIR classic films!) It's the kind of film that offers new insights each time you view it, as the actions and motivations of 'good' brother Stewart and 'bad' brother McNally become better understood. www.filmbuy.com /winchester73.html   (507 words)

MSN Encarta - James Stewart The latter film initiated a collaboration with Capra that led to two of Stewart's most famous roles: as the title character in Mr. In 1985 Stewart received a special Academy Award “for 50 years of meaningful performances,” and later that year he was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the government of the United States, the nation's highest civilian honor. After the war, he returned to the theater in Harvey (1947), a fantasy-comedy about an affable alcoholic and his invisible companion, a 6-foot rabbit; he later re-created the role in the 1950 film version of the play. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565620/Stewart_Jimmy.html   (458 words)

Film History of the 1950s Another definitive film noir was Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953)- it was an example of a sub-genre of criminal/gangster-syndicate films, along with Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo (1955), Phil Karlson's The Brothers Rico (1957), and Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg's CinemaScope Murder, Inc. (1960). The constraints of the system were increasingly criticized by the mid-1950s, because filmmakers were forced to make changes in their films in order to qualify for a seal of approval, but some filmmakers were willing to take risks. Yet the film, along with Preminger's challenges and other lessening of restrictions on film-makers in 1956, was instrumental in breaking the back of the Production Code and bringing in a new era of frank Hollywood movie-making. www.filmsite.org /50sintro4.html   (1731 words)

Knitting Circle Rock Hudson Winchester '73, 1950, film acting role as Young Bull, (also called Montana Winchester). But the facts were hidden from the general public and to quell some of the rumours Henry Willson encouraged him to court and then marry his secretary, Phyllis Gates in 1955. After acting lessons and small parts in a number of films Rock Hudson's first major success was in Magnificent Obsession in 1954, after which he became an international star. myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/rockhudson.html   (1735 words)

THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER MORE Conflict was filmed from unsettling angles, throwing the audience as well as the hero off balance. Beginning with his fortuitous 1947 teaming with Anthony Mann, Alton proceeded to produce a virtual photographic workbook that film makers of every stripe are still endeavoring to emulate. The credentials of cameraman of John Alton are surely some of the most impressive in film. www.bmonster.com /more6.html   (648 words)

Camera and Photo Store :: Winchester '73 Winchester '73 is the first in a remarkable string of five classic westerns that James Stewart made with Anthony Mann in the 1950s (followed by Bend of the River, The Man from Laramie, The Naked Spur, and The Far Country). The story of a stolen Winchester model 1973 rifle and the owner "James Stewart" tracking down his brother that stole it from him after he won it at a shooting contest and James tracking his brother down to get back his stolen rifle. Comment: I am 13 years old I have seen many many westerns in my life and Winchester 73 was one of my favorites. www.iavor.com /Winchester_73-B00005JLV5.html   (639 words)

Rock Hudson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The film, ahead of its time, and lacking the usual glossiness expected of a Hudson film, was a box office flop. Many consider the finest performance of his career to be that of the young Malibu painter Tony Wilson into whom the elderly New York City banker Arthur Hamilton is transformed in John Frankenheimer's 1966 science fiction film Seconds. In 1956 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Giant, and two years later, Look Magazine named him Star of the Year. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_Hudson   (879 words)

Winchester 73 (1950)     Winchester 73 was one of the first serious westerns of the 1950s, though today it is a little less impressive than it must have seemed in 1950. The plot of this film is a series of episodes, which follow McAdam's quest for revenge and the fate of the Winchester which passes from owner to owner. In between, the film has some interesting sequences, such as that involving an Indian trader (John McIntire) and Dutch Henry, and the last 15 minutes of the film, which is exceptional. www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5017   (866 words)

The Stranger - Film - Film Shorts - Film Shorts Anthony Minghella steers the film into a few minor rough spots (including a somewhat clumsy beginning, and an occasionally annoying performance by Renée Zellweger as a lodger who helps Nicole Kidman on her farm), but the picture as a whole delivers a big, heartfelt epic. The film portion of this festival includes a bunch of short films and film essays, plus live concert footage and a screening of John Sayles' Brother From Another Planet. The speed of the film's narrative is always high, and the characters are kept in constant motion, rarely stopping to rest and look at the big world around them. www.thestranger.com /seattle/Listings?oid=18439   (2251 words)

Winchester '73 (1950) WINCHESTER '73 also introduces a darker side of Jimmy Stewart that wasn't present in his earlier work. The first and best of the Anthony Mann/James Stewart westerns, this one is about Stewart pursuing a "one of a kind" rifle that is rightfully his after winning it in a contest, with the intention of killing the man who stole it from him. The rifle passes through many peoples' hands by the end of the film, and each character is interesting in his own right. www.jjandbird.com /reviewwinchester.html   (206 words)

SIFF: Filming Behind the Camera (Seattle Weekly) Filming Behind the Camera — Never mind what the studios have in store this summer; SIFF shows how Hollywood itself is a rich subject for documentaries. But this might have required a gun, and Ward is an interviewer as gentle as Stern is. This is a problem at points in the film, because an aspect of the writer's block that descended on Stern in the '70s was a crippling tendency toward self-doubt, second thoughts, and indecisive narrative. I wish Ward had pressed Hopper to admit that he was wrong to discard Stern's script for The Last Movie, then claim that there never was a script, and then beg Stern to come help him fix it while he was improvising and coking his way to disaster in Taos. www.seattleweekly.com /film/0520/050518_siff_hollywood.html   (1224 words)

ipedia.com: James Stewart (actor) Article He was awarded the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award in 1980, as well as an Honorary Academy Award for 50 years of memorable performances in 1985. James Maitland Stewart was an American film actor beloved for his persona as an average guy who faces adversity and tries to do the right thing, an image which was largely reflected in his own persona... There is also a statue of Indiana's favorite son on the lawn in front of the Indiana County Courthouse which was dedicated May 20, 1983 in celebration of Jimmy's 75th Birthday. www.ipedia.com /james_stewart__actor_.html   (647 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Winchester '73 at Epinions.com "Winchester '73" was important to Stewart's career because the film increased his range: he showed that he was credible in tough guy roles. "Winchester '73" is a Western drama starring James Stewart. "Winchester '73" is probably Stewart's best Western, although I have yet to see "The Naked Spur" from 1953. www.epinions.com /mvie-review-5BC7-13711965-383CA13A-bd1   (446 words)

At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Winchester '73 (1950) Winchester '73 is their first and best film together, shot in gorgeous black and white and almost flawless staging and pacing. They were smaller time films than the epic John Ford/John Wayne collaborations -- most were exciting, action-packed stories, yet which were personal and personable and had a firm handle on character. As its title may suggest, the story is that of a rifle and the people involved with it. www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/winchester.73.1950.shtml   (182 words)

AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Film Reviews With Winchester ’73 he and Mann welcomed America to the second half of the century. According to legend, by 1950, with the Second World War behind it, the United States was well on its way to glorious prosperity. Once a reliably wholesome genre of American moviemaking, westerns suddenly became complex, neurotic, and fascinating—as if they were markers for the stress points of American life, for the thin spots where the promises of that life and the expectations they raised just couldn’t hold. www.avguide.com /film_music/film/shorttakes_2005_1/winchester73.jsp   (374 words)

washingtonpost.com: Film Hero Jimmy Stewart Dies at 89 Beginning in 1950, he commenced his development as the stoic frontiersman in such Westerns as "Winchester '73" and "Broken Arrow," where he fell in love with an Apache maiden. His initial postwar films perpetuated the image of youthful innocence and hometown decency he had projected before the war, but in the late 1940s it didn't play as well as it had before Pearl Harbor. He won awards from the Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics and the Film Daily poll of writers in 1959 for his performance as the defense attorney for an Army officer accused of murder in "Anatomy of a Murder," which also drew an Academy Award nomination. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/features/stewart/stewartobit.htm   (1893 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Harvey at Epinions.com But for a superior James Stewart film from 1950, I highly recommend "Winchester '73" instead. For the more cynical among us, however, it is a one-joke film filled with simplistic characters and many slow moments. Universal Studios paid a whopping $750,000 for the film rights, but had no trouble casting the lead. www.epinions.com /mvie-review-4D05-F415832-37FFAF18-bd3   (398 words)

MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Winchester '73 Winchester '73 is full of energy and wit. The film's story takes place with the country's centennial year and the Indian wars in the wake of Sitting Bull's victory over Custer as background. The cast is a wonderfully entertaining and professional troop and the screenwriters have served up a intelligent, spirited script and story. www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=5458   (137 words)

Anthony Mann Movies - Films of Anthony Mann Perry Mason fans unfamiliar with Burr’s film noir work are in for a jolt here when he throws burning alcohol on a party guest when she accidentally bumps him: "She should have been more careful." True to Anthony Mann movies though, that scene isn’t the creepiest. One of the all time most consistently outstanding film directors, Anthony Mann's action/suspense films continually returned to the theme of "intelligent, thoughtful men driven to violence." Heroes in Mann movies relentlessly pursued justice, breaking the law along the way if need be. While this film is credited with reviving the serious western, looking back on it today, its even greater legacy is its reinvention of Jimmy Stewart. www.suspense-movies.com /directors/anthony-mann   (1361 words)

Dark West - The Western Films of Anthony Mann and Jimmy Stuart September 2000 American Western Magazine At the end of that film Kemp uses his spur as a climbing tool, once more forced to climb a rock to reach Vandergroat. It seems incongruous at first that Mann's dark stories should be filmed in the Rockies, instead of the barren locations of Monument valley. Unhampered by a conscience, it is easy for him to find the killer within himself — something which Kemp, for all his cynicism, is unable to do until it is in self-defense. www.readthewest.com /WesternMovies.html   (1198 words)

Hollywood Film Festival® - Shelley Winters Winters' film credits include The Great Gatsby (1949), Winchester '73 (1950), Mambo (1954), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Lolita (1962), The Chapman Report (1962), A House Is Not A Home (1964), Alfie (1966), Harper (1966), Buona Sera, Mrs. Her professional body of work in more than 100 films, as well as her noteworthy work on stage, is a great achievement and an example for emerging talent to follow. Winters' reputation as an actress was firmly established in the film A Place in the Sun (1951), directed by George Stevens, and she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance as the factory girl drowned by her seducer, played by Montgomery Clift. www.hollywoodawards.com /shelleywinters   (848 words)

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