Jimmy Stewart takes on a disturbing role in this violent Western.
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there was no one more imminently likable and endearing than James Stewart, or Jimmy Stewart as he's more commonly referred to. With his youthful charisma, endearing innocence, and surprisingly astute sense of wisdom, Stewart represented an inherent goodness that was hard to replicate. Between Mr.
Winchester ‘73 wasn’t just Stewart’s first of many masterpieces with Mann, but the film that effectively established his evolution; it came the same year as the similarly dark western Broken Arrow, and directly preceded his work with Alfred Hitchcock on Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Like many Hollywood stars, Stewart had served in World War II, and even attained the rank of colonel in the Army Air Corps after 0ver 20 combat missions.
Although the basic story structure of a stolen prize and a mission of vengeance isn’t necessarily anything new for the western genre, Mann’s more experimental way of tracking the gun from owner to owner makes the middle section of the film more interesting.
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