Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spindly James Stewart gets his man and Janet Leigh to boot in M.G.M.'s brawling Technicolor western, The Naked Spur. He also meets a gold prospector, a cavalry officer, and a murderer. As if this was not enough t make him a bonfire western movie hero, Stewart more or less survives Indian attacks and avalanches...
Filmed with Colorado's Rocky Mountains, as a back-drop, Naked Spur recounts the trials of a Kansas rancher, Stewart, who pursues a desperate killer, Robert, Ryan, for the price on his head. After capturing the killer, he soon liquidates him (not without reason) and then departs with Janet Leigh for California, his pockets empty. All this intends to point up the moral that Stewart should never have tried to get a pecuniary reward in the first place...
...Anglo-Iranian was far from finished. A bitter blow, the loss of Iran nevertheless turned out to be a healthy spur to Anglo-Iranian, which had grown soft on its 42-year monopoly of one of the world's richest oilfields. Misfortune pumped new life into the company...
...spur to speculation about her third child...
...Naked Spur ambitiously tries to dig into the theme of human greed, but it is neither a Greed nor a Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nonetheless, Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable...