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The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie
The Man from Laramie Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Anthony Mann
Produced by William Goetz
Screenplay by Philip Yordan
Frank Burt
Based on "The Man from Laramie"
serial, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954
by Thomas T. Flynn
Starring James Stewart
Arthur Kennedy
Donald Crisp
Cathy O'Donnell
Music by George Duning
Lester Lee
Cinematography Charles Lang
Edited by William Lyon
Production
company
William Goetz Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 31, 1955 (1955-08-31)
Running time
104 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $3.3 million (US)

The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell.

Written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, the film is about a stranger who defies a local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals. The film was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, and thereafter as a novel in 1955.

The Man from Laramie was one of the first Westerns to be filmed in CinemaScope to capture the vastness of the scenery. The film was also shot in Technicolor. This is the fifth and final Western collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart.

The movie's theme song of the same name, written by Lester Lee and Ned Washington, was recorded in the United States by Al Martino and in the United Kingdom by Jimmy Young. Young's version topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in October 1955, while Martino's version (which did not chart in the U.S.) stalled at Number 19 that September.

Will Lockhart (James Stewart) becomes entangled in the happenings of Coronado, an isolated western town, after delivering supplies there from Laramie. He immediately ends up at odds with the Waggomans, an influential ranching family. Lockhart is quietly searching for information about someone selling repeating rifles to the local Apaches; his brother, a green Army Lieutenant, was killed in an Apache attack at Dutch Creek.


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