The Man from Laramie (1955)
(Anthony Mann, US 1955, 103 min., 35mm)
Wagon train driver Will Lockhart (James Stewart) rides from Laramie, Wyoming to the small town of Coronado with a load of supplies. He also carries with him a secret that has brought him to the town. There he meets the lovely Barbara Waggoman (Cathy O’Donnell), runs afoul of her cousin, Dave (Alex Nicol), and challenges the richest landowner in town, Dave’s father, Alec (Donald Crisp). With the whole town seemingly against him, Lockhart will have to push past the stranglehold Alec has on the townsfolk to find the truth. Structured like a classical tragedy and filled with memorable dialogue and powerful violence, Mann and Stewart’s final western together is also their first in widescreen CinemaScope.