The Man from Laramie (1955)

James Stewart

'The Man from Laramie' is a Western action movie made in 1955, directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart. It was the fifth, final and the most successful time that Stewart and Mann had made a Western together, and their eighth collaboration in all.

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With Mann at the helm, Stewart gives a memorable performance as a resolute and mysterious stranger obsessed with finding the man responsible for selling rifles to the Apaches who killed his brother. He gets embroiled with the Waggoman family, father Alec Waggoman (Donald Crisp), and sadistic son Dave (Alex Nicol) but in the end justice is done.

The movie provides a number of examples of Anthony Mann's trademark use of the landscape to portray or emphasise a character's emotional state.