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Academy Awards, USA. 1954 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. Sam Rolfe. Harold Jack Bloom.
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In 1868, in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Howard Kemp offers grizzled prospector Jesse Tate $20 for help tracking Ben Vandergroat, wanted for killing a marshal in Abilene, Kansas. Kemp shows him a torn WANTED poster. Tate assumes that Kemp is a sheriff. An avalanche of rocks blocks their path. Kemp fires, provoking another rock slide. Roy Anders...
The 6th Cavalry Regiment was stationed in Texas in 1868. Fort Ellis was actually under the command of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment. The actors carry Colt Model of 1873 Peacemaker revolvers, which did not exist in 1868. The rifles are also anachronistic, with the Winchester having an iron/steel receiver, which was not available until 1873 (earlier model...
The Naked Spur was the third of five Western collaborations between James Stewart and Anthony Mann and the third of eight overall collaborations. The two previous Westerns were Winchester '73 (1950) and Bend of the River(1952). Stewart was given the lead role of Howard Kemp, an embittered rancher turned bounty hunter. The film is notable for having...
The film premiered in the first day of February 1953. That same year, two other films directed by Mann and starring Stewart were also released. These were Thunder Bay and The Glenn Miller Story. Jonathan Rosenbaum would later hail The Naked Spur as a masterpiece as well as "Mann’s best and most elemental western," writing that it had "some of the m...
The Naked Spur at IMDbThe Naked Spur at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Naked Spur at the AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsThe Naked Spur at AllMovieThe Naked Spur: Directed by Anthony Mann. With James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker. A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
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- Drama, Thriller, Western
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Oct 4, 2023 · Q: Did The Naked Spur receive any awards or nominations? A: Yes, The Naked Spur was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1954. Q: Is The Naked Spur considered a classic Western?
The Naked Spur was filmed on location in Durango and the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, and Lone Pine, California. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay—a rare honor for a Western. This is the third Western film collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart.
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The Naked Spur. 1953. Anthony Mann. James Stewart, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell ... 7.4. 3,362. Western Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time.
Feb 1, 2023 · The polite, charming young man who won an Oscar in 1941 for the screwball comedy The Philadelphia Story was now a hardened war veteran—Stewart’s all-American boy image had in fact adapted to the...
