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Winchester ’73

Winchester ’73

Anthony Mann, 1950

Spine #1248

Picked by 3 guests

Western

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Anthony Mann

Written by Borden Chase, Robert L. Richards

Cinematography William H. Daniels

Edited by Edward Curtiss

Cast James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake, John McIntire, Will Geer

Picked by

Tom Rothman

“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...”

Ari Aster
Ari Aster director

“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.”

Tracy Letts

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