The Man from Laramie
1955 · Movie · NR · 103 min · ★ 7.2 · 95% critics
Will Lockhart arrives in an isolated New Mexico town searching for who has been selling rifles to the Apache tribe. Instead, he’s pulled into the tense, secretive world of a local ranching family, where loyalties and motives aren’t what they seem.
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Details
- Years
- 1955
- Release date
- 1955-08-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (260 votes)
About
If you want a tense, character-driven Western with big landscape atmosphere and mounting family conflict, The Man from Laramie should hit; Not for you if you prefer simple plots or less-violent, straightforward genre comfort like Rio Bravo or Shane.
Pros: strong Stewart drama; stylish widescreen vistas; gripping character tensions | Cons: story can feel complicated; some character threads weak
Themes
- arms smuggling
- apache nation
- family secrets
- rifle
- mysterious man
- gunfight
- based on short story
- cattle ranch
- spoiled son
- american west
- taken under wing
- new mexico territory
- +4 more
Cast & crew
James Stewart
as Will Lockhart
Arthur Kennedy
as Vic Hansbro
Donald Crisp
as Alec Waggoman
Cathy O'Donnell
as Barbara Waggoman
Alex Nicol
as Dave Waggoman
Aline MacMahon
as Kate Canaday
Wallace Ford
as Charley O'Leary
Jack Elam
as Chris Boldt
John War Eagle
as Frank Darrah
James Millican
as Tom Quigby
Directed by Anthony Mann