The Naked Spur is a 1953 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration. The screenplay was written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom. The original music score was composed by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography was by William C. Mellor.
Filmed just north of Durango, Colorado, Engineer Mountain can be seen in several shots.
In March 1868, Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is tracking Ben Vand...
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The Naked Spur is a 1953 American western movie directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration. The screenplay was written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom. The original music score was composed by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography was by William C. Mellor.
Filmed just north of Durango, Colorado, Engineer Mountain can be seen in several shots.
In March 1868, Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is tracking Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan), wanted for the murder of marshal in Abilene, Kansas, on March 12, 1868.
Kemp, now on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, meets a grizzled old prospector, Jesse Tate (Millard Mitchell), on the trail and enlists him to help for $20.00. Tate assumes that Kemp is a sheriff and Kemp does nothing to say otherwise.
After trapping somebody on top a rocky hill, Kemp is convinced that it must be Vandergroat, landslides force them to retreat. Looking for a way around the hill they meet a Union soldier...
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