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The Naked Spur is a 1953 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration.

Plot

Howard Kemp (James Stewart) tracks murderer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for the $5000 reward, which he hopes to use to buy back his ranch which his ex-fiancée had sold while he was serving in the army. Kemp enlists a tired miner to help him and inadvertently allows a discharged soldier to join in his quest. He finally captures Vandergoat (and the killer's girl), but tension rises as Vandergoat tries to turn his captors against each other and Kemp to keep his money.

Reception

The film was a box office hit when first released, ensuring three more Stewart-Mann collaborations, including two more westerns. Screenwriters Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom were nominated for the 1954 Best Screenplay Academy Award. In the years since its release, the film has achieved continued success, gaining more critical acclaim now than upon first release. The film was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the federally funded United States National Film Registry in 1997.

James Stewart and Anthony Mann

James Stewart starred in five classic western movies by director Anthony Mann. In all five he plays a man that is haunted by the past. The films are famous for their groundbreaking use of the landscape to portray the characters' feelings.

Winchester '73 (1950)
Bend of the River
(1952)
The Naked Spur
(1953)
The Man from Laramie
(1955)
The Far Country
(1955)

Cast

James Stewart as Howard Kemp
Janet Leigh as Lina Patch
Robert Ryan as Ben Vandergroat
Ralph Meeker as Roy Anderson
Millard Mitchell as Jesse Tate

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