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The Naked Spur is a 1953 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, and Millard Mitchell. Written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, the film is about a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice, and is forced to accept the help of two strangers who are less ...
The 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.
In The Naked Spur, Stewart plays Howard Kemp, a Civil War veteran who returns home to find that he has lost his land. To get his property back, Stewart decides to become a bounty hunter and he enters the Colorado territory in pursuit of outlaw Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan).
Howard Kemp (James Stewart) has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell) and former...
The Naked Spur. Summaries. A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers. Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time.
The Naked Spur (1953) Mark Franklin July 2, 2015 1950s. James Stewart plays Howard Kemp, an embittered man who returned home from the Civil War to discover that “his girl” had sold his ranch and used the money to run off with another man. So he turns bounty hunter to make the money needed to buy back that ranch.
The Naked Spur is the most distilled of Mann’s Westerns. It is the film where every character, every detail is a reflection of Kemp’s own internal struggle—the fight for control, for ...
