Excellent film, with a simple plot yet complicated and interesting characters who are not as they seem to be. The use of the then-new Cinemascope is beautiful. A must see for fans of the genre.

Great film and great western. Maybe the best of the Stewart and Mann collaborations too.

The Anthony Mann/James Stewart partnership is basically the reason why I'll always press Play on either of their westerns, be they together or not. To call The Man from Laramie Shakespearean might be overstating it, but their final collaboration of certainly has the kind of tragic family set-up you'd expect from the Bard. Stewart shows up in a rather unfriendly town and almost immediately runs afoul of the brutish son of the local land baron, but we're not sure if he's sticking around to get revenge, to get the girl, or because he's on a personal mission that has led him here (though the mystery is perhaps not that much of a mystery given what villains exist to fit the bill). It's a tangled web of intriguing characters, each caught up in their own plot, and the western tropes that perhaps weren't so old in 1955, often manage a surprising twist that keeps this one entertaining even decades on.