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TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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ma-cortes From Universal-international a breathtaking as well as rip-snorting Western that shows the greatness , the glory , the fury of the untamed Northwest frontier . Stars a tough , hardened adventurer guide who leads his herd challenging the gold-rich glory that was the Yukon full of white with snow , scarlet with sin , yellow with the dust that lured him on . As a self-minded , haunted cowboy (Jeff Webster) leads his herd to the Yukón , through Seattle , Scagway , Alaska , in hopes of huge profits accompanied by veterans Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan) and Rube (J.C.Flippen) transport cows by boat when they arrive in Scagway , subsequently to sell it them in Dawson City . While driving cattle to Dawson and in Scagway they have to escape from nasty land baron/judge Gannon (John McIntire) who carries out his peculiar justice acting as judge , jury and executioner . Jeff and his colleagues end up having herd back from the villain lawman . At last , they arrive in Dawson City , a bustling little town fiiled with prospectors and usual saloons : ¨Hash house¨ run by Grits (Kathleen Freeman) and ¨Hudson castle¨ run by Ronda Castle (Ruth Roman) . There takes place strong confrontations and Jeff , ultimately , avenging the deaths of his partners . One of a series made by star Stewart with director Anthony Mann , it features splendid Western vistas , fierce gun-play and fist-play , impressively busy crowd sequences and many other things . Adventure western movie in which a two-fisted cowboy leads his herd through Seattle , Scagway to Dawson , Yukón territory , pitting himself against the wilderness , bandits , mean prospectors , and an ambitious , corrupt lawman . The film is divided in two parts , the first one describes on rout to destination , Yukón , and second part dealing with the little town Dawson city . Set late XIX Century , 1898, it shows the moral obligation to build a civilized community and need to a collective effort , joining individuals against corrupt and selfish people . Interesting and stirring screenplay based on the novel by Ernest Haycox titled ¨Alder Gulch¨. Sympathetic as well as brave acting by the great James Stewart as the stubborn Webster who must fight frontier lawlessness and locks horns with a crooked judge , a top-hatted nasty , magnificently played by John McIntire . Stewart has top grade character written all over it . Nice Ruth Roman as the good-bad girl who must be forgiven in the end . Support cast is frankly extraordinary with a large plethora of illustrious names , such as : Chubby Johnson , Harry Morgan , Robert J. Wilke , Royal Dano , John Doucette , Steve Brodie , Jack Elam , Kathleen Freeman and special mention for Jay C. Flippen as the grizzled westerner and a show-stealing acting by the always great Walter Brennan. Lyric and moving musical score by Hans J. Salter , Frank Skinner , Henry Mancini , and Herman Stein , all of them uncredited . Colorful cinematography in Technicolor William H. Daniels , Greta Garbo's usual cameraman , and the Yukón sets takes it out of the ordinary Western scenarios , being shot in Canada , mostly in Jasper National Park . The motion picture was stunningly directed by Anthony Mann and premiered Febrery 1 , 1955 . Being made during Mann's best period of work . The film forms a stunning diptych along with ¨Bend the river¨ by the awesome quartet : Anthony Mann , screenwriter Borden Chase , producer Aaron Rosenberg and James Stewart who made a great number of top-drawer films . This is another superbly powerful triumph from Anthony Mann who realized various Western masterpieces such as ¨The furies¨ , ¨Devil's doorway¨ , ¨Tin star¨ , ¨Man of the West¨ and several with his habitual star, James Stewart, as ¨Winchester 73¨ , ¨Bend the river¨ , ¨The far country¨ , ¨Man from Laramie¨ , ¨Colorado Jim¨ , ¨Thunder Bay¨ , ¨The Glenn Miller story¨. Rating : Above average ; it is probably one of the best Western in the fifties . Well worth watching .

Robert J. Maxwell This Anthony-Mann directed adventure yarn gets an extra point for its location shooting. It's not Skagway, Alaska, or Dawson, in the Yukon. It's in the Canadian Rockies and the landscape is majestic.Stewart and Brennan are two saddle buddies who have brought a herd of cattle to Skagway, where they are confiscated by the roguish villain and only law officer, McIntire. The local saloon mistress, Roman, takes a shine to Stewart and bails him out of jail. The shine on Stewart is buffed by an innocent, passionate, kind French girl, Calvet.All of them, Stewart's cattle included, wind up in the muddy camp of Dawson. They're followed by McIntire and his henchmen, who set about doing evil, robbing hard working miners of their claims, sneering, shooting innocent civilians and engaging in other such mishigas.Stewart doesn't care for anyone but himself and perhaps for his old buddy Brennan. But McIntire and his goons offend him once too often. Gunplay ensues. And, as is usual in an Anthony Mann movie of the period, the violence is pretty brutal.If you stripped the film of its lush budget and carefully drawn supporting characters, you'd have a John Wayne B movie from 1935 -- "The Man From Skagway." Maybe "Guns of the Yukon," or something of that ilk.But money and talent make a difference, and while is far from a challenging movie -- nobody's character evolves except Stewart's -- it's as entertaining as all get out, by gum.Stewart does a fine job, and Brennan is Stumpy in excelsis. Ruth Roman is stiff and Corinne Calvet is a little cloying, but so what? We have McIntire as a kind of Judge Roy Bean of the Far North. We also have Ruth Roman's men being buried beneath fifty feet of snow on "the ice trail." The ice trail is actually the Columbia Ice Fields. I watched them shooting these scenes as a child. When I visited the Columbia Ice Field some thirty years later, the location was barely recognizable because the glacier had melted so much that its edge had retreated more than a hundred yards.

AaronCapenBanner Jimmy Stewart plays Jeff Webster, a loner and bachelor who, along with his sidekick/business partner Ben Tatum(played by Walter Brennan) takes a herd of cattle by ship from Wyoming to Seattle. He encounters crooked lawman named Gannon(played by John McIntire) but still proceeds through with his route to the Klondike region, where he hopes to sell his beef for a sizable profit, though, when he does arrive, decides to prospect for gold himself. The nearby town of Dawson has an increasing amount of lawlessness, which doesn't bother Jeff until it hits him personally...Disappointing western can't measure up to either of the previous films with director Anthony Mann and star Jimmy Stewart. Result is a predictable and routine film of little interest, though everyone involved does try at least, and film isn't bad, but is unmemorable.

jzappa Jimmy Stewart, soft-spoken, classically well-mannered and mild, with that inimitable drawl, was an unexpected choice to play a frontier anti-hero, and that's precisely why, unlike more conventional cowboy stars, his lanky figure and detached behavior gives Jeff Webster a vulnerability rarely seen in western protagonists, particularly his power to intermingle a sinister, fuming state with America's Everyman. Webster intractably insists he can survive best depending on and relating to no one but himself. He declines help to others in mortal danger, but doesn't expect it from them either. The story then becomes a contest between us and Mann over how long he can keep the theoretical hero from ultimately being heroic? The script hangs around holding its fire with perverse delight.Webster and his subordinate Walter Brennan constantly rub the law the wrong way while running cattle to Canada. Their key obstruction is Sheriff Gannon, the shameless boss of the corrupt border town of Skagway. Gannon administrates spontaneously without looking away from his poker hand, hanging men for inconsequential offenses. He impounds Webster's herd as "payment to the government." Gannon is a cheat who's not so much interested in confiscating Webster's cattle as he is his spirit.When Webster is enlisted to escort a cavalcade to a gold mining settlement in the Yukon by Ruth Roman's gorgeous but hardhearted saloon owner Ronda, he finds his opportunity to reclaim his livestock and flee Gannon's influence. The resulting ploy, which brings about an intrepid chase, has Webster smirking to himself, one rogue outwitting another, both taking pleasure in the game. The next scenes reveal Webster to be startlingly more callous than previously thought. And that's before his arrival in Dawson, where he lets tightfistedness prevail over propriety, selling his herd to Ronda rather than the deprived locals. She's the superstore running the small proprietorships out of business, reducing the town's livelihood to rubble. And they're defenseless to retaliate. Regardless, she's later usurped by Gannon.The plot is constantly priming Webster for redemption just for him to backpedal again. It concludes with a smidgen of doubt about the characters. Webster thinks the locals should deal with it or move camp if they don't want mortal consequences from Gannon's henchmen. Likewise, he's getting rich in the gold rush. The sooner he can turn his back, the better, and no reproach from trusty old Brennan, or the Dawson marshal, or the sweet, unselfish Renee can persuade him otherwise. Renee is the most level head in the movie, repeatedly urging Webster to take a stand while Ronda urges him to take advantage. The movie stages the tiresome love triangle device in a much more interesting way than usual, with both women smitten by our severe cowboy, but again Mann plays with us. Each time we applaud Renee, the script flings Ronda into Webster's gaze instead.It's a conundrum of the movie star figure. Because Stewart was long-established as a guileless average middle-class fellows innocently draw into conflict, it's a test of our trust in the studio-era tradition of typecasting. And if Mann understands that his audience feels that it's certain that he gets wise to heroism, he can imbue his movie with a concentrated emotional look at hostility.