Winchester ’73

“Winchester ’73. Well, this is remembered as the first of several significant collaborations between Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann. But, actually, for folks like me who’ve spent many, many years dedicating their lives to the studios, Winchester ’73 is significant for a different reason. This is basically the first movie where an actor got to participate in the gross receipts of the movie, what came to be known as the back end, and Jimmy Stewart was a big enough star to do it. And it also had...”

“Winchester ’73, the first film that Anthony Mann made with James Stewart. Maybe an unconscious adaptation of The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, where you follow a coupon from one character to another. This has Rock Hudson as a Native American tribal leader, which some characters in Eddington would not appreciate.”

“Winchester ’73. Anthony Mann western with Jimmy Stewart.”