SILVER

Jimmy Stewart is a failed farmer turned embittered bounty hunter, tracking down crafty outlaw Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) in a bid for a big payday to get back on his feet. But he didn’t count on acquiring an impromptu posse consisting of old prospector Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell) and dishonorably discharged cavalryman Roy Anderson (Ralph Meeker). Nor did he plan on falling for Ryan’s tomboy sidekick, Lina Patch (Janet Leigh). The entire cast gives top performances in one of the finest of the Mann–Stewart Westerns, and perhaps the most psychologically intense. DIR Anthony Mann; SCR Harold Jack Bloom, Sam Rolfe; PROD William H. Wright. U.S., 1953, color, 91 min. NOT RATED

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