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Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

James Stewart is a man trying to put his chequered past behind him as he guides a group of settlers to virgin territory, and then returns to civilisation to collect their paid-for winter supplies, only to find the unscrupulous supplier has re-sold them at a much higher profit to gold rush miners. Arthur Kennedy is on the scene as another baddie-turned-good, except his teeth are far too white for it to be genuine in his case. This is a hugely enjoyable western directed by Anthony Mann, with excellent performances from all concerned, although Stewart and Kennedy excel. This is perhaps the first movie in which Stewart showed he could be a hard nut as well as a nice guy.The story creates a number of elements which have now become cliches, and puts them together in an original order. The scenery and colour photography are gorgeous.

Jimmy Stewart and Arthur Kennedy play Glyn McLyntock and Emerson Cole, two friends with mysterious(and questionable) pasts who agree to guide a group of homesteaders from Missouri into Oregon. They make camp outside of Portland as winter arrives, so Glyn and Cole bring them supplies which they will need if they are to survive. The homesteaders(led by Jeremy Baille, played by Jay C. Flippen, and his two daughters, played by Julie Adams & Lori Nelson) become close to Glyn, but Cole isn't so attached, and when they receive a better offer to divert the supplies to gold prospectors, Cole takes the supplies by force from Glyn. Enraged by the betrayal, he vows to kill his former friend, and help the homesteaders.Underrated western is beautifully filmed in color on location, with a compelling story, excellent direction by Anthony Mann, and fine performances, especially Stewart.Makes a fine double feature with "Winchester '73".

Very entertaining and colorful combination of character study, complicated plot, gun play, wagon train realism, beautiful eligible young women, and fantastic on site scenery in the Mt. Hood and nearby Columbia River region, all in crisp Technicolor. Whereas John Ford liked to site his westerns in the dry Southwest, Anthony Mann preferred the verdant Pacific Northwest, also evidenced in "The Far Country" and "The Last Frontier", for example.On the down side, there are some problems with historical, physical and psychological realism. I am confused just when this story supposedly takes place. According to Wikipedia, it occurs in 1847. But, several features of the screen play say that can't be, and nothing in the film indicates the year. Jimmy Stewart's and Arthur Kennedy's lead characters are both former participants in the Missouri-Kansas border wars, which didn't begin until after Kansas was made a territory in 1854, continuing through the Civil War. Then, there is the matter of the gold rush. We might be generous in assuming that the screenwriter was thinking of the 1862 strike in the Blue Mtns.,relocated to the Mt. Hood area. Riverine steamboats first began to ply the lower Columbia in 1850, although none were named "River Queen", as was a famous East Coast(not Mississippi) steamer. As depicted, the Shoshone(or Snake) tribe did have many skirmishes with settlers and the US army in the 1850-60s. However, it took 6 months to complete the Oregon Trail. Thus, a spring arrival, as stated, isn't feasible, horses(as shown) rarely pulled the wagons, and the Little Bighorn(as Kennedy questions) was irrelevant.The later Mann-Stewart film "The Far Country" exhibits many similarities to this film. Both involve Stewart as a traveling loner, with a price on his head for murder. Both were mainly shot in the Cascades or Canadian Rockies, and both involve a gold rush as central to the story. In both films, there is fighting over the ownership of food desired by the miners. Stewart mostly has a partner, who eventually is killed. There are two central young women in both. Stewart nicknames the younger of the two 'funnyface' to denote that he thinks them too immature as a romantic interest for him...There are some important differences. In the later film, Stewart's character is the quintessential anti-hero: not interested in getting involved in other people's problems. In this film, he is repeatedly a hero, risking his life to help others. Also, his traveling buddy(Kennedy) in most of this film, whom he saves from a lynching, without knowing the details, eventually becomes his arch enemy, whom he must kill to fulfill his mission of delivering essential supplies to the settlers whom he guided to Oregon. Kennedy's character(Emerson Cole), as well as Tom Hendricks, the steamboat owner who promised to deliver supplies to the wagon train settlement, then reneged when he could sell them at a much higher profit to miners, represent men whose sense of duty is overcome by greed, in contrast to Stewart's character. The point is that Jeremy Baile's(Jay Flippen) expressed distrust of men with a violent period in their past(Stewart's and Kennedy's characters), who seem reformed, is sometimes justified and sometimes not. The latter may revert to their former selves, given sufficient reason and opportunity. In Kennedy's case, it was the mutiny of the gang of helpers in getting supplies to the settlement, and Stewart's refusal to join him and them in redirecting these supplies to the miners that instigated his changed attitude. Kennedy argued that the settlers(and the justice system) would hold their past against them forever, once they were found out. Stewart admitted this was a possibility, but chose to take the chance that his repeated heroism on behalf of the settlers would absolve any doubts about his changed character.Chubby Johnson. as always cheery Cap'n Mello, provides unrealistically accommodating willingness to help Stewart and the settlers in their violent clash with his boss, Hendricks, over their due supplies. African American Stepin Fetchit displays his stock 'coon' character as Mello's seemingly retarded first mate.Stewart seems an unrealistic superman in his chase of the mutineers, just after having been thoroughly beaten up and left without a horse or firearm. Rock Hudson's enigmatic role as a professional gambler dandy, turned member of the settler's 'gang' is interesting. Why? He figures he owes Cole something for saving his life in a gambling dispute. Later, he seems to side with Cole during the mutiny(probably to save his skin!), then switches back to being Stewart's aid when the latter unexpectedly shows up. His consistent flippant attitude toward the obvious overtures of luscious Lori Nelson presumably reflects a message of desired independence, and we are left wondering if they become a couple. Mann usually left the romantic aspects minimally covered and mostly implied. Stewart refused to be cast with Rock again, after he got a bigger applause than Stewart at the premier.

I don't hear this said often, but this might be the best of the Mann/Stewart Western. Personally, I thought "The Far Country" was better, but not by a whole lot.Here's what I liked:As usual in a Mann movie, it is thematically interesting. This time a haunted loner is trying to redeem himself from his sordid past.Very good tension is created and maintained throughout the movie.Restless change of location keeps the plot from stagnating and reinforces theme of the wide open West. This was done very well also in "The Far Country" and "The Naked Spur".Tough, tough location shooting results in brilliant technicolor scenery. Very limited use of studio sets. Also, location is authentic i.e. they are actually shooting the movie in Oregon where it is supposed to be taking place.James Stewart's charisma as a cowboy is off the charts.Arthur Kennedy is fantastic in this. You like him, but don't trust him for the entire movie. Kennedy knows how to project a unique mixture of charm, menace and sliminess all at once.Julia Adams is very good looking and has a lot of sex appeal (watch for her in a much better role playing opposite Raymond Burr and Robert Ryan in "Horizon's West", released the same year). Also, her character isn't purely ornamental. She develops and contributes.It was very interesting that the movie had rotating heavies. The mantle was passed from the Shoshones to Hendrix to the wagon train crew and finally to Cole.Now here's where it wasn't so great:Mann's not big on comic relief, yet he attempts it here. He misfires badly, employing Stepin Fetchit as the attempted humor. I try show a little more understanding for these flaws in films made in earlier eras, but this was released in 1952. No excuses.Indian presence is almost completely absent, except for an attack at he the beginning of the movie when they are presented one dimensionally Also, there are a couple of long windy speeches about how important it is for settlers to clear this "unclaimed" and "uninhabited" land.Listen, I'm not saying every movie has to side with the Indians on this issue, but the debate should at least be acknowledged.Finally, we encounter typical Mann plot holes, although they are not nearly as severe as those in "The Man From Laramie" and "The Naked Spur" and "The Man of the West". However, there are still several, the worst of which is during the film's climax, when McClyntock teleports himself around the forest, magically appearing wherever it suits the plot best.