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MCT:September 27, 2008One man hunts another man for a shooting a man in the back, while a wincherster '73 moves around their lives and brings them back together for one last shoot out.
James Stewart gives one of his best performance as a cowboy. Surprise to see the actor Tony Curtis pop in this film, but does not have a too big of a role.
One of the finest western films ever made. -
MCT:September 8, 2008
I like James Stewart and the main cast, but some of the tertiary characters are just laughably bad actors. Fine story and all that.
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MCT:August 28, 2008Classic western,Stewart appears as a new iconic symbol moving to the group of the many heroic western film figures,what about Anthony Mann?The stellar thing with this guy is he adores grand occasions.Epic form.And that is a novelty for the Far West genre.
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MCT:August 11, 2008How much you will enjoy Winchester 73 depends on what you are looking for. It cleverly interweaves plots and characters as it follows the one-in-a-thousand perfect Winchester as it passes from revenge-hungry Lin, to murderer Dutch Henry, to an amoral gunrunner, to a warring Indian chief, to coward Steve, to psycho Waco Johnnie Dean, back to Dutch Henry and then Lin. But if you're watching this for James Stewart as Lin, and following his plot to kill his father's murderer, then you might get bored at how little he is in it. Still, Stewart is both likeable and convincing as the hero, and Shelley Winters plays an interesting and strong Lola, having to put up with her unlucky lot in life. But it's a shame that the plot is mildly cliched and while the dialogue is witty, it is often poorly delivered by some of this ensemble cast.
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MCT:July 23, 2008
This sure is a very great movie with in the leading role a gun :-).
very good story and put nicely together. -
MCT:July 6, 2008
Winchester: The Only Thing That Can Keep Your Family Safe
This is the first advertising movie that I've reviewed on Flixster (I think. I've seen quite a few movies since joining the website over a year ago.) Okay, maybe it's not completely an advertising movie simply because there's certain facts about the West. The Winchester changed the face of the frontier. But I just wish this movie would shut up about it already. Seriously, it wasn't referred to as "this fine gun". It was always "well, we got two Winchesters," or "this gun is no Winchester, but it'll do." SHUT UP! I can't stand that shamelessness. The sad thing is that the movie has a really good concept going to it.
Pretty much, this is the Lord of the Rings or "The Monkey's Paw" (or, for you Supernatural viewers out there in the Flixster verse, the rabbit's foot) for the Western scene. Pretty much who unjustly carries this weapon, be it wittingly or unwittingly, will meet their demise. Too bad everyone and their mother "knows that's a perfect Winchester" (*grrrr...I'm sorry, I really can't stand that stuff in movies. Really, this is an excellent film that just threw around the word "Winchester" too much. It was like Castaway with the FedEx packages coming in face up or You've Got Mail. I was actually floored that this movie didn't start sellout Tom Hanks!) I'd have to believe that someone in the West probably saw that Winchester and said "Boy, that's a pretty looking gun," and left it at that. But everyone knew it as the 1 in a thousand, which seemed silly to me. Admittedly, guns aren't the way of the land in Royal Oak, MI, but I don't think everyone in the West knew what made the perfect gun.
The other issue I have with this movie, which isn't necessarily the biggest problem in the world, is the sphere of coincidence. The West was always known for being wide and spread out. There would be almost no way that you'd constantly run into people you knew by coinicidence. Well, not only did the main characters run into one another, but everyone who was anyone in this movie constantly seemed to know each other through close ties. Mind as well have all introduced them in one room at one point and got the big issues out of the way.
I have to finally yell at my 501 book. Those plot summaries are spoilery as hell. They told me why James Stewart is chasing Duke the entire time and how they know each other. Considering that this is the big end revelation and that they are throwing clues at you, I didn't want to know two sentences into the description of the movie that they know each other that way. What a gyp. I feel like I kind of got something screwed out of this movie. But that said, all of the performances were great. I love James Stewart and seeing him in this very different role was a great experience. I've seen him in movies like The Naked Spur and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, so I am used to his Western work, but he's always such a noble character. While he is still by far the protagonist of this piece, he's here hunting for revenge and not caring who he hurts in the process. It's very different seeing him as a violent man, but I do like the portrayal he gives as this deeply troubled character. It's not like he's brooding, but his choices come as surprises, like I imagine violence happens in real life. People aren't sneering all the time. They're crafty and break into spontaneous emotion.
Two interesting bits about this movie that really stood out was the cameo of Wyatt Earp as a character. Those brushes with history always play a little bit of fun with the viewers and I think that the character's appearance was well used. I'm glad it didn't pull a Star Wars or a Young Indiana Jones and have the characters meet everyone from the Old West, but that one brush was pretty fun. The other thing that I really dug was a really young Tony Curtis in somewhat of a minor role. He's one of the featured Cavalry Officers and just sticks out like a sore thumb. But I like Tony Curtis so I got a thrill out of it.
This really is a good Western with a great overall theme. I just get upset when products go from natural to shameless very quickly. I mean, I can imagine the fine people at Winchester thinking that their gun gets their owners killed would probably be bad on business, but there's other ways to handle it without just be over-the-top and without dignity. -
MCT:March 28, 2008Another fine pairing of Mann and Stewart. Simple yet ingenius premise. Wizzes by like a bullet. Extremely tight, done to perfection.
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MCT:March 22, 2008This flim was another fantastic western! I loved the twists and turns in this one! Both the heroes and villains were convincing, as was the female character.
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MCT:March 13, 2008
This movie is better than losing your virginity
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MCT:February 24, 2008
Another fantastic western! I loved the twists and turns in this one! Both the heroes and villains were convincing, as was the female character. I wasn't crazy about how they depicted Wyatt Earp in this one, but it was still a great watch.
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MCT:January 17, 2008
The story is a bit clunky at the beginning and it's conceit is underwhelming. However, fantastic dialog, great performances, and a ripping 3rd act more than make up for this.
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MCT:November 30, 2007
James Stewart and Anthony Mann made a few quality westerns together, and this is probably the best of them. This film has everything a western could want and more; Stewart is in full bad-ass mode as he hunts down the man who killed his father. It starts off with a sharp-shooting tournament overseen by an unusually machismo free and jovial Wyatt Earp (nicely played by Will Geer) and goes onto an encounter with a cardsharp, an Indian war party, a sassy music hall girl, a Stagecoach-style cavalry siege, a gunslinger heading a ruthless gang AND a bank robbery; all cleverly linked by the ownership of the eponymous rifle. The plot is by it's very nature rather episodic, but the performances are all first rate (including cameos by Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis in early roles) and the high contrast black & white photography very effective. A minor classic of the genre.
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MCT:November 21, 2007
James Stewart is brilliant. See a young Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson. This is a fun westernwith top notch action
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MCT:August 25, 2007
Somewhere along the way you get over the fact that it starts like a clichéd western and you get involved quite heavily with the clever pace of plot. The Winchester 73 itself is a classic cinema mcguffin, as it is passed from person to person via different means before coming full circle again at the gripping finale. Jimmy Stewart is, as always, on fine form as the sharp-shootin' hero of the tale.
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MCT:August 5, 2007
A masterly story with all the necessary elements required to make an outstanding western. Only inferior to Shane as an all time western classic.
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MCT:July 23, 2007
seamless acting from james stewart. he's fast becoming one of my favourite actors. first time i witnessed his skill was in philadelphia story as a reporter. i wouldn't mind checking out the other 4 anthony mann films he played a part in. it's very rarely i enjoy watching an actress in a western but shelley winters played a gutsy broad
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MCT:June 13, 2007
Is this the film where we first hear the line, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do"? This movie was groundbreaking in lots of ways and the ending is fantastic.
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