Anthony Mann
Director, Actor
They Live By Night (w/ Side Street) (1948-1950)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray, Anthony Mann
Feat. Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell
- Nicholas Ray's terrific, heartfelt tragi–noir fluctuates between high tension and sweet romance, underpinning the fate of criminal lovers…
Winchester '73 (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Shelley Winters
- Lean, mean, and superbly photographed, this helped repopularise the Western in the '50s. Stewart wins a rare 'perfect' rifle, which is subsequently…
Furies, The (1950)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston, Wendell Corey
- Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston lock horns in this colossal, psychosexual western, notable for its Oedipal complex and Freudian horseplay. Anthony…
Bend of the River (1952)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Rock Hudson…
- A gritty and compelling showdown on the Oregon Trail between settler James Stewart and double–crosser Arthur Kennedy. Beautiful Rocky Mountain…
Naked Spur, The (1953)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan…
- Cited as one of the Great Westerns; a tough, hard little film about self–styled bounty hunter Stewart trying to capture Ryan, who stirs tension…
Thunder Bay (1953)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland…
- Stewart and Mann swap horses for oil–rigs – though its still very much a western – in this brawny adventure set in the Gulf of…
Glenn Miller Story, The (1954)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, June Allyson, Louis Armstrong…
- A creditable star–biography of the big–band leader and trombonist, which, verging on the overly sentimental, is saved by its reverance to…
Far Country, The (1954)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Walter Brennan
- The Yukon Ranges provide the unforgiving backdrop to this prototypical Anthony Mann western, in which James Stewart must battle the elements and…
Man from Laramie, The (1955)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp…
- An angst–ridden James Stewart seeks retribution on arms dealers whose illegal trade resulted in the ambushing of his brother's cavalry patrol.…
Tin Star, The (1957)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer…
- Anthony Perkins stars in one of his earliest roles playing a young sheriff eager to prove himself in a small town, who accepts help and advice from a…
Man of the West (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb…
- Gary Cooper stars in this battle of nerves as a former gunman forced by his old gang to engage in their criminal activity. Solid, intelligent film…
Men in War (1958)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Vic Morrow…
- Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray play the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division over a…
El Cid (1961)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Charlton Heston
- The tale of the 11th century warrior–king who drove the Moors from Spain. By dint of its fine acting and avoidance of the obvious, this epic…
Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, James Mason…
- Monumental event is given a proportionate treatment with sets reputed to be the largest ever built and a literate script to boot.
Heroes of Telemark, The (1965)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson…
- Douglas and Harris are bickering leaders of an allied attempt to destroy a Nazi atom–bomb factory in the snowy wastes of Norway. Predictably…
Dandy in Aspic, A (1968)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow
- A curious failure, Anthony Mann’s final film, completed by star Laurence Harvey after the director died during filming, muddles the deception of a…