Winchester '73 with James Stewart: DVD Cover
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Winchester '73 Director: Anthony Mann Cast: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally

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  • DVD Release Date: 05/06/2003
  • Original Release: 1950
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 4,327

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Interview with James Stewart; Original theatrical trailer

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [1:38]
2. Dodge City [4:04]
3. Dutch Henry Brown [2:13]
4. The Shooting Contest [8:23]
5. The Winner [2:49]
6. The New Gun's Owner [2:46]
7. The Indian Trader [8:10]
8. The Winning Hand [3:11]
9. A Gun for Young Bull [4:11]
10. Indian Raiders [4:50]
11. Shelter for the Night [10:42]
12. Young Bull Attacks [4:51]
13. The Chief's Gun [4:11]
14. Waco Johnny Dean [9:32]
15. Johnny's Gift [5:50]
16. Tension in Tascosa [5:09]
17. The Bank Robbery [1:47]
18. Brother Against Brother [6:27]
19. The Rightful Owner [1:06]
20. Cast of Characters [:18]

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Lin McAdam (James Stewart) and his friend High-Spade (Millard Mitchell) arrive 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 that Winchester won't sell it. Lin runs across Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally) in a saloon and the two would kill each other right there but for the fact that town marshal Wyatt Earp (Will Geer) has everyone's guns. Lin wins the rifle in an extraordinary marksmanship match-up with Brown, but the latter steals the prize from him and sets out across the desert. Thus begins a battle of wits and nerves, and a pursuit to the death. The roots and raw psychological dimensions of that chase are only exposed gradually, across a story arc that includes references to Custer's Last Stand, run-ins with marauding Indians, a heroic stand with a a shady but well-intentioned grifter (Charles Drake), and a meeting with murderous sociopath named Waco Johnny Dean (Dan Duryea), plus a romantic encounter with a young, golden-hearted frontier woman (Shelley Winters). All of these story lines eventually get drawn together neatly and gracefully by director Anthony Mann, who balances the violence of the events with a lyrical, almost poetic visual language. Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

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Great Stewart vehicle!by Anonymous

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May 18, 2003: James Stewart made a great choice to make this film. Many thought he would be out of his element, as he was the all-american guy-next-door in his early pre-WW2 films. He wanted to prove everyone wrong creating a much more hard-nosed roughened up character from his experiences in the war. He came back a different man and a different actor, and this change proved a successful one. The film has a great cast, story, and director.

A Seminal Westernby Anonymous

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May 11, 2003: This is one of the great westerns, and I think, James Stewart's best. Stewart displays a hardness which he had not hitherto shown. The scene in the bar where he jams Dan Duryea's face into it while twisting his arm, shows us a man who it is best not to trifle with. This may be Duryea's best performance also. Millard Mitchell, as Stewart's sidekick, is supurb. Anthony Mann's direction of his great cast is a primer of how to pace the action and the drama so that his audience never loses interest. The prize rifle of the title is like a leitmotiv from a Wagner music drama. Its journey from hand-to-hand is the thread that ties the story together. One of those hands is young Rock Hudson as the indian chief. I saw this western when it was first released and it remains, along with Red River, Shane and perhaps a dozen others, as indespensible to any western lover's library.