Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart

Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart

8 Episodes

With their eight unforgettable collaborations—most famously the five legendary, psychologically charged westerns WINCHESTER ’73, BEND OF THE RIVER, THE NAKED SPUR, THE FAR COUNTRY, and THE MAN FROM LARAMIE—director Anthony Mann and star James Stewart pushed the actor’s hitherto wholesome image into uncharted new territory, revealing dark depths of anger, violence, anxiety, and moral ambiguity. Distinguished by their intricate mise-en-scène, taut action set pieces, and striking use of landscape, these films reshaped both Stewart’s persona and longstanding American mythologies of heroism, honor, and justice.

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Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart

8 Episodes

  • Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart Teaser
    00:58
    Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart Teaser
    Episode 1

    Anthony Mann Directs James Stewart Teaser

    Episode 1

  • Winchester ’73
    1:32:28
    Winchester ’73
    Episode 2

    Winchester ’73

    Episode 2

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1950 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea

    Lin McAdam (James Stewart) arrives in Dodge City for a shooting contest, in which the prize is a perfectly manufactured Winchester repeating rifle, referred to as “one of a thousand”—a gun so fine...

  • Bend of the River
    1:31:10
    Bend of the River
    Episode 3

    Bend of the River

    Episode 3

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1952 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson

    With their visually stunning and psychologically brooding follow-up to WINCHESTER ’73, star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann continued to push the western into darker, edgier territory with...

  • Thunder Bay
    1:42:49
    Thunder Bay
    Episode 4

    Thunder Bay

    Episode 4

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1953 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland

    In this rousing Technicolor adventure—the first of three non-western films James Stewart and Anthony Mann made together—ex-GI Steve Martin (Stewart) and his army buddy Johnny Gambi (Dan Duryea) arr...

  • The Glenn Miller Story
    1:56:22
    The Glenn Miller Story
    Episode 5

    The Glenn Miller Story

    Episode 5

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1954 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan

    The beloved music of legendary big-band leader Glenn Miller graces this handsomely mounted biography, which traces his rise from humble pit-orchestra trombone player to leader of the most successfu...

  • The Far Country
    1:37:03
    The Far Country
    Episode 6

    The Far Country

    Episode 6

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1954 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet

    In the fourth of the legendary, darkly psychologically westerns they made together, James Stewart and director Anthony Mann head northwest for a tale of moral struggle amid spectacular Yukon settin...

  • The Man from Laramie
    1:42:26
    The Man from Laramie
    Episode 7

    The Man from Laramie

    Episode 7

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1955 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp

    Director Anthony Mann makes brilliant use of the CinemaScope frame in this intense, almost mythic psychological western. The final of the five groundbreaking westerns star James Stewart made with...

  • Strategic Air Command
    1:53:52
    Strategic Air Command
    Episode 8

    Strategic Air Command

    Episode 8

    Directed by Anthony Mann • 1955 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy

    Breathtaking aerial footage of Air Force bombers in flight—in glorious widescreen VistaVision no less—fuels this patriotic aviation drama, the final collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony...

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