Country: USA
Year: 1950
Duration: 92'
Lin McAdam is searching for his brother Henry, who killed their adoptive father. When he arrives in Dodge City, Lin meets up with Henry at a shooting match. The two brothers are the best shots in the area and thrash the opposition. In the end, Lin wins first prize: a new Winchester repeating rifle. But Henry steals the rifle and runs away. Lin and his friend Frankie follow after him. Henry has gambled the rifle away in the meantime and the weapon changes hands.
Biography
film director
Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann (San Diego, CA, USA, 1906 - Berlin, Germany, 1967), born Emil Anton Bundmann, began his career, after having been an actor and theater manager, in 1938 as a collaborator of David O. Selznick. After making a low-budget noir and crime director, he became popular in the 1950s with some westerns starring James Stewart. He then dedicated himself to other genres with films The Glenn Miller Story (1954). In the 1960s he worked in Europe, creating blockbusters such as El Cid (id., 1961) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Great Flamarion (La fine della signora Wallace, 1945), T-Men (T-Men contro i fuorilegge, 1947), Raw Deal (Schiavo della furia, 1948), He Walked by Night (Egli camminava nella notte, 1948), The Furies (Le furie, 1950), Devil’s Doorway (Il passo del diavolo, 1950), Winchester ‘73 (1950), The Tall Target (Bersaglio eccellente, 1951), Bend of the River (Là dove scende il fiume, 1952), Thunder Bay (La baia del tuono, 1953), The Naked Spur (Lo sperone nudo, 1953), The Far Country (Terra lontana, 1955), The Man from Laramie (L’uomo di Laramie, 1955), The Last Frontier (L’ultima frontiera, 1955), Man of the West (Dove la terra scotta, 1958), God’s Little Acre (Il piccolo campo, 1958), Cimarron (1960), The Heroes of Telemark (Gli eroi di Telemark, 1965), Dandy in Aspic (Sull’orlo della paura, 1968).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Anthony Mann.
Plot: da un racconto di Stuart N. Lake.
Screenplay: Borden Chase, Robert L. Richards.
Director of photography: William Daniels.
Art director: Nathan Juran, Bernard Herzbrun.
Costume designer: Yvonne Wood.
Editor: Edward Curtiss.
Music: Joseph Gershenson.
Cast and characters: James Stewart (Lin McAdam), Shelley Winters (Lola Manners), Dan Duryea (Johnnie Dean), Stephen McNally (Henry Brown), Millard Mitchell (Frankie Wilson), Charles Drake (Steve Miller).
Production company: Aaron Rosenberg per Universal.
Plot: da un racconto di Stuart N. Lake.
Screenplay: Borden Chase, Robert L. Richards.
Director of photography: William Daniels.
Art director: Nathan Juran, Bernard Herzbrun.
Costume designer: Yvonne Wood.
Editor: Edward Curtiss.
Music: Joseph Gershenson.
Cast and characters: James Stewart (Lin McAdam), Shelley Winters (Lola Manners), Dan Duryea (Johnnie Dean), Stephen McNally (Henry Brown), Millard Mitchell (Frankie Wilson), Charles Drake (Steve Miller).
Production company: Aaron Rosenberg per Universal.