Winchester '73

Winchester '73

  • Director: Anthony Mann
  • Writer: Robert L. Richards,Borden Chase,Stuart N. Lake
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 12, 1950
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Montana Winchester
  • Winchester '73 is a 1950 Western film directed by Anthony Mann starring James Stewart and Shelley Winters .
    The film tells the adventures of cowboy Lynn McDum on his quest to retrieve a valuable Winchester-made repeating rifle from 1873 .

    Details

    • Release date July 12, 1950
    • Filming locations Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies Universal International Pictures (UI)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Landen 2022-10-16 22:01:53

      Western classics that hide their flaws

      In the movie world, the biggest difference between the Western sharpshooters and the heroes of the cold weapon era such as boxing champions, swordsmen and heroes is what they use: guns. This essential difference determines that Western film directors must not copy the action patterns of other types of films when dealing with gunfight scenes (especially master duels), but must work harder on how to express the "fast and accurate" of the shooter. The reason is very simple, when Ali, Wong Feihong,...

    • By Cletus 2022-10-16 19:24:40

      "Winchester 73": A cross section of the myth of the West

      In Anthony Mann's "Winchester '73," the first shot is a close-up of the gun, an M73 Winchester Rifle placed in a shop window, which is The best gun in the west of the era. And guns are an indispensable element in all Western films. For Western mythology, a symbolic gun is a deified person, or more precisely, a man. Immediately afterwards, James Stewart appeared on camera as Lin and his companions. From the dialogue, we know that they are in pursuit of a person who came to Dodge Town for the...

    • By Janice 2022-10-16 18:33:39

      Reunion is a must

      What the film might mean for Hollywood is that it pioneered a model of splitting the bills. From then on, the big stars don't get paid and get a share.
      Many reviews have mentioned the director's nuanced emotional performance in the westerns. On this point, because I don't know enough about the history of Western films, I can't evaluate it. For today, emotional performance is clearly a far cry.
      I think the play of this film is really wonderful. It uses a gun to string together all...

    User comments

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    • By Camila 2023-09-25 14:53:54

      4.5; exploiting Western's antiquated settings to include psychological complexity and moral...

    • By Jerrod 2023-09-07 06:32:28

      The last confrontation between the two brothers is immediately reminiscent of Blood in the Sun. This story is connected by a rifle, but the middle part of the plot feels a bit abrupt. For example, how did the heroine Lola and his boyfriend meet the gangster who is going to meet the hero's bad brother brother so coincidentally? Stewart's cowboy hero is really funny when he fights with people, and it always feels like something is...

    • By Melany 2023-07-11 04:17:55

      In fact, I don't think the performance is so good. The first half of the show was very good, and the final shootout was a bit of a...

    • By Deshaun 2023-06-20 07:16:08

      good. In the wilderness of the west, heroes and gangsters kill people like grass. Even so, in times of chaos and bullets, the protection of women and children is the consensus of the good and the bad; fair trade, willing to admit defeat, is also the consensus of the good and the bad. : The moral standard and level of civilization of the outlaws of the US imperialists more than a hundred years ago were far higher than the patriotic masses of your country who were now well-off under Wei...

    • By Velda 2023-05-11 18:28:50

      A Winchester gun that fires one thousandth of a good gun in succession has aroused all kinds of greed among people in the wild west. As a result, this gun has brought bad luck to people like the Lord of the...

    Background creation

    "Winchester, '73" was the best of the five Westerns that James Stewart and Anthony Mann famously collaborated on in the 1950s (the other four were, in that order, "The Winding River" ( Bend of the River, "The Man From Laramie," "The Naked Spur," "The Far Country," thought to spur a Western box office recovery The film also set a historical precedent: from the film, the stars no longer live by receiving salaries (albeit staggeringly...
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    Movie quotes

    • High Spade: We've hit a lot of towns, Lin. What makes you think he'll be here?

      Lin McAdam: He'll be here.

      High Spade: We've been wrong before.

      Lin McAdam: He'll be here.

      High Spade: On account of that?

      [High Spade indicates the Winchester '73 rifle that is the top prize at Dodge City's Fourth of July shooting competition]

      Lin McAdam: If he isn't here already, that gun'll bring him.

    • Lin McAdam: Awful lot of law for a little cowtown.

      Wyatt Earp: This is the kind of cowtown that needs a lot of law.

    • Wyatt Earp: That's Dutch Henry Brown. I thought you said you didn't know him.

      Lin McAdam: I said I didn't recall the name.