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# Naked Spur, The (blu-ray)

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Naked Spur, The (blu-ray)

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Warner Brothers Archive Blu-Ray: Fantastic!
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2021*

When I saw Warner Brothers' Archives was releasing "The Naked Spur" on blu-ray, I preordered right away simply because I was so excited. I've bought a few other Archives' BD releases, and their video quality is excellent—at least to my mind and eyes. I never saw "The Naked Spur" on DVD, but I saw it via two different streaming networks (both decent ones), and it looked rather murky, which is one reason I never sprang for the DVD. The blu-ray arrived yesterday, and I am thrilled with it. Compared to what I've seen, the film looks fantastic: clear, colorful, with nice depth. I'm so happy I bought it! Because emotions are so important in this film, and sometimes subtle, visual clarity is very important, and in watching the blu-ray, I felt the force of the film more strongly than I've ever felt it before. The audio is very good too, although mono (DTS-HD 2.0), with voices clear and dialogue understandable.As for the film itself, this is directed by Anthony Mann, a guy of genuine depth and social consciousness whose films tend to possess a moral depth, an ethical strata. In "The Naked Spur," Jimmy Stewart's bounty hunter and Civil War vet, Howard Kemp, tracks down a Kansas murderer in the Colorado Rockies, intent on bringing him to justice for a $5000 reward—what Howard believes will turn his life around after a serious betrayal and the loss of his ranch during his time away at war. Robert Ryan is the murderer, Ben Vandergroat, who comes with a former partner's lovely and toughly capable young daughter, Lina, played Janet Leigh; Ben has a mind that never stops calculating and a manner that can range from frightfully harsh to humorously amiable—the latter end of that range more common, though, and lending him charisma. Toss into this mix two more characters—Jesse, an old prospector (the obligatory stock character in so many Westerns) and a morally ambiguous Union soldier, Anderson (discharged dishonorably)—and you have your basic cast: three men who, as it quickly turns out, will have to split a bounty; the bounty head who knows greed can be a powerful weakness in men; and a young likable woman, struggling with loyalties and seemingly lost to the whims of fate, who honestly elicits sympathy (at least she did from me).Across the boards, the acting is terrific. Robert Ryan is utterly on key, an amazing actor who deserved far more respect and kudos than he ever publicly received. Jimmy Stewart is fantastic as always, injecting a darkness into his character that he was so beautifully capable of (cf. Vertigo, Rope, and several other films in the 1950s). Here, his depth is especially notable. He thus has a great foil (and to an ambiguous degree, twin) in Ryan, and it's an intense meeting of forces.All in all, the blu-ray bowled me over right to the end, where the climax was more moving than ever before. Thank goodness Warner Archives did this for The Naked Spur: a great Western, a great film of any genre—and with a screenplay that was nominated for an Oscar, the rare time that has happened for a Western.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Unique Western Classic
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2022*

James Stewart made a number of classic Western films, mostly for director Anthony Mann, and this is one of the more unusual ones.  Typically, there was extensive location shooting in Colorado and California.  Through the use of vivid Technicolor, this film is visually quite impressive and memorable.The remarkable thing about this thrilling film is that there are basically only five actors in the story.  Mann presumably used some Native Americans for a rather brutal and troubling encounter with a band of "Indians" that ends tragically for those unnamed individuals after they pose a significant threat to the five individuals.Jimmy is essentially a bounty hunter who tracks down a killer, portrayed by Robert Ryan.  The wanted man is accompanied by a young woman, portrayed by Janet Leigh, who doesn't realize that the man she loves is not whom she thinks.  There is, of course, a substantial reward for bringing Ryan to justice, where he will likely be hung (in Abilene, Kansas).  The challenge is getting Ryan back to Kansas, especially since the two other men have questionable views about sharing the reward.  There is an internal conflict between Jimmy and the others.  The story conflict because Ryan tries basically to "divide and conquer" everyone, hoping that he and Janet Leigh can somehow get away and go to California for a new life.The impressive film, with its continuing conflicts, is enhanced by a fine musical by MGM staff composer and conductor Bronislaw Kaper.  As in other Westerns, Jimmy uses the amazing horse Pie, who can be identified by the distinctive white spot on his forehead.  This was actually the third film that Jimmy made for Anthony Mann and it is definitely one of the best.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Savage, Elemental Western
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2008*

The Naked Spur was the third of five Westerns director Anthony Mann would make with Jimmy Stewart in the first half of the '50's. These works stand alongside Stewart's 50's films with Hitchcock as going along way to revise his "aw shucks," light comic persona. For Hitchcock, Stewart played obsessive, neurotic characters; for Mann he was that too, with an added capacity for violence that is as convincingly portrayed as is is unexpected. Looking at both ends of Stewart's emotional spectrum by watching The Naked Spur and Vertigo alongside Mr Smith Goes To Washington bears out fully Andrew Sarris' accolade -- Stewart was the most complete actor in classical Hollywood.In Spur, Stewart plays Howie Kemp, once a normal farmer who probably had a moral compass; but a series of set-backs leading to the the loss of his ranch has left him at the end of his tether -- to get himself out of a financial hole, he has turned bounty hunter, stalking a former friend, a career criminal, who shot a sheriff and now has a substantial reward hanging over his head -- dead or alive.At the film's start, Stewart is alone in the wilderness, and close to catching his quarry. But by the time he apprehends him, and has to make the long journey back to civilization, he had acquired unwillingly a couple of partners who facilitate the capture and now mean to share in the spoils: Ralph Meeker, as a sociopathic cavalry officer, dishonorably discharged for raping an Indian (and the tribe is on his trail, and hence on Stewart's as well); and a kindly but greedy old prospector (Millard Mitchell).And the quarry? Robert Ryan, at his menacing best. Bound and immobile for most of the film, his barbed humor and disarming good nature disguise a truly dangerous man -- dangerous because he knows all of his captors weaknesses, and plays them off against each other, using his words as weapons only until he gets the chance to get his hands on an actual gun. When he is caught, he is accompanied by a semi-feral young woman, played by Janet Leigh, the daughter of one of his slain associates with whom Ryan has some sort of ambiguous relationship, somewhere between lover and surrogate father; when Ryan sees Stewart is attracted to her, he will use that too as a weapon.Mann stages this journey employing the rocky barren landscape as another protagonists; he relishes having his actors climbing sheer rock faces, fording rapids, digging themselves into the earth to shield themselves from bullets. The extremity of the characters struggle with the landscape mirrors the emotional extremes they are subjected to.Stewart plays here a paranoid, bitter, vindictive man, for whom the pursuit of blood money has become an obsession. The fact that this goal is at odds with the moral person he once was leads him to the edge of hysteria; he screams like a woman, rages, menaces, bullies. And he pulls it off beautifully. Mann once said at the end of any of his films, his heroes are more exhausted then exalted. As in The Wages of Fear, these movies, particularly Spur, are ordeals, and we and the characters are spared nothing. This movie,like the others in the cycle, is among the toughest, and darkest westerns to come out of Hollywood.

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