The Man from Laramie
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| 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 |
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William Goetz Productions
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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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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