The Man From Laramie (1955) on Netflix
Will Lockhart hauls freight from Laramie to Coronado, a town in Apache country, hunting whoever sold rifles to the Apache. He crosses Dave Waggoman, son of rancher Alec Waggoman, and stays on.
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Will Lockhart brings freight from Laramie to Coronado, a town in Apache country in New Mexico, and delivers it to Barbara Waggoman, who keeps her father's store and wants to leave it. He asks for cargo to haul back and loads salt from a dry lake. Dave Waggoman, son of the rancher Alec Waggoman, arrives with a team, shoots Lockhart's mules and burns his wagons; Vic Hansbro, who rides with Dave, urges Lockhart to leave. Lockhart rides into town and fights Dave instead. Alec offers to pay for the destroyed property and blames Vic for Dave's temper. Kate Canady wants Lockhart to run her ranch, and he turns her down. He stays in Coronado, hunting whoever sold repeating rifles to the Apache, the weapons used in a cavalry ambush.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man From Laramie (1955)
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- Producer Aaron Rosenberg said James Stewart and Anthony Mann never made another Western after The Man from Laramie because of their fight over Night Passage: Mann objected to Audie Murphy's casting, called the film "trash", quit, and was replaced by James Neilson. Stewart was so angry the two men never spoke again.
- The Man from Laramie was shot in Technicolor and was one of the first Westerns to be filmed in CinemaScope, the widescreen process used to capture the vastness of the scenery.
- The film's theme song became a bigger hit in Britain than in the United States: Jimmy Young's UK recording topped the UK Singles Chart in October 1955, while Al Martino's American version peaked at number 19 that September.
- Impressed by Anthony Mann's work on the then-unreleased Devil's Doorway, James Stewart personally chose him to direct Winchester '73 after Fritz Lang left that production, starting the partnership that led to The Man from Laramie.
