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<font size="4"><br>The Man From Laramie</font>
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<br>video review by Grant Tracey</font>
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<p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>A</b></font>nthony Mann’s westerns concern coming to grips with obsessive revenge and understanding crises in male identity. In the earlier <i>Winchester 73</i>(1950), James Stewart tracks down and kills his brother for murdering their father. In <i>Naked Spur</i>, bounty-hunter Stewart hunts down wife-killer Robert Ryan, but revenge is hollow. He still obsesses, unable to let go the past, and the body of Ryan becomes a psychical metaphor for the unconscious mind. Through the pleading love of Janet Leigh, Stewart sets Ryan’s body adrift in the river, forgoing his bounty.
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