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Spindly James Stewart gets his man and Janet Leigh to boot in M.G.M.'s brawling Technicolor western, The Naked Spur. He also meets a gold prospector, a cavalry officer, and a murderer. As if this was not enough t make him a bonfire western movie hero, Stewart more or less survives Indian attacks and avalanches...
...Anglo-Iranian was far from finished. A bitter blow, the loss of Iran nevertheless turned out to be a healthy spur to Anglo-Iranian, which had grown soft on its 42-year monopoly of one of the world's richest oilfields. Misfortune pumped new life into the company...
...spur to speculation about her third child...
...Naked Spur (MGM) is a bang-bang-up western and the shootingest Hollywood horse opera in months. It begins with a cagey killer (Robert Ryan) and his flinty pursuer (James Stewart) who is out to collect the $5,000 reward. An old prospector (Millard Mitchell) and a cashiered Union Army officer (Ralph Meeker) have cut themselves in on the reward money as Stewart's partners. Since this is a big Technicolor western, there is also a girl along for the ride, played by Janet Leigh in a becoming boyish blonde hairdo. By the fadeout, the bad man, the prospector...
...Naked Spur ambitiously tries to dig into the theme of human greed, but it is neither a Greed nor a Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nonetheless, Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable...