92 mins |
Rated
G
Directed by Anthony Mann
Starring James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters, Stephen McNally
To coincide with USA's annual Independence Day celebrations on the Fourth of July, journey through the rugged American frontier with our screening of Anthony Mann's masterful WINCHESTER '73, a fantastic example of the Western genre and an incisive look at the founding of the USA as it is today.
'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 that Winchester won’t sell it. Lin wins the rifle in an extraordinary marksmanship matchup with Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally), but the latter steals the prize and sets out across the desert. So begins a battle of wits and a pursuit to the death, the roots and raw psychological dimensions of which are only gradually revealed.'
With this, the first of his eight remarkable collaborations with director Anthony Mann, Stewart shed his nice-guy image and revealed an angrier, more violent and complex persona that the pair would continue to explore throughout their films together.
Featuring Shelley Winters as the rifle's only rival for McAdam's interest and Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances, the gripping tale of the men (and gun) who won the West is one of Stewart's most memorable films and one of the genre's most enduring classics.
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To coincide with USA's annual Independence Day celebrations on the Fourth of July, journey through the rugged American frontier with our screening of Anthony Mann's masterful WINCHESTER '73, a fantastic example of the Western genre and an incisive look at the founding of the USA as it is today.
'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 that Winchester won’t sell it. Lin wins the rifle in an extraordinary marksmanship matchup with Dutch Henry Brown (Stephen McNally), but the latter steals the prize and sets out across the desert. So begins a battle of wits and a pursuit to the death, the roots and raw psychological dimensions of which are only gradually revealed.'
With this, the first of his eight remarkable collaborations with director Anthony Mann, Stewart shed his nice-guy image and revealed an angrier, more violent and complex persona that the pair would continue to explore throughout their films together.
Featuring Shelley Winters as the rifle's only rival for McAdam's interest and Tony Curtis in one of his first screen performances, the gripping tale of the men (and gun) who won the West is one of Stewart's most memorable films and one of the genre's most enduring classics.