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Bookmark this pageWinchester '73 (1950)
Director: Anthony Mann
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From Time Out Film Guide
Mann's first film with James Stewart, with whom he was to make a series of classic Westerns, this offers the clearest example of Mann's use of the revenge plot. Hero (Stewart) and villain (McNally) are brothers who have been taught to shoot by their father. After McNally murders the father, Stewart sets out to seek revenge and so prove himself worthy of his father's name, symbolised by the perfect Winchester Stewart wins in a shooting contest and McNally steals from him. So begins the long chase to one of the most neurotic shootouts in the history of the Western.Author: PH
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- Posted on Apr 08 2011 20:24 THE MOVIE WINCHESTER 73 IS SUBERB ON ALL ACCOUNTS. GREAT
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Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Mann
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Charles Drake, Millard Mitchell, John McIntire, Jay C Flippen, Will Geer, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 92 mins
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