| The Man from Laramie | |
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| Directed by | Anthony Mann |
| Screenplay by | Philip Yordan Frank Burt |
| Based on | "The Man from Laramie" serial, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954 by Thomas T. Flynn |
| Produced by | William Goetz |
| Starring | James Stewart Arthur Kennedy Donald Crisp Cathy O'Donnell |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | William Lyon |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | William Goetz Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.3 million (US)[1] |
The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell.
Written by Philip Yordan and Frank Burt, the film is about a stranger who defies a local cattle baron and his sadistic son by working for one of his oldest rivals.[2] The film was adapted from a serial of the same title by Thomas T. Flynn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1954, and thereafter as a novel in 1955.
Shot in Technicolor, The Man from Laramie was one of the first Westerns to be filmed in CinemaScope to capture the vastness of the scenery.
This is the fifth and final Western collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart, the other four being Winchester '73 (1950), Bend of the River (1952), The Naked Spur (1953) and The Far Country (1954). Mann and Stewart also collaborated on three other films: Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and Strategic Air Command (1955).
- ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
- ^ "The Man from Laramie". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 21, 2012.