The Naked Spur (1953)

The Naked Spur (1953) is a bounty hunter chamber piece in the wilds classic Technicolor character-driven super-national park cinematic landscape featuring taut and rugged four men and a girl on the trail road-movie-style buzzard bait irascible western treatise on the moral consequences of greed directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker and Millard Mitchell. It is a film that features more plaster foam rocks than any other that anyone can remember from the early 50s.

The Gunfighter (1950)

The Gunfighter (1950) is a lone gun-fighter facing early celebrity in the nascent wild west western revenge chase and showdown saloon and range estranged child and wife thriller starring Gregory Peck, Karl Malden, Helen Westcott and directed by Henry King. 

In the noirlands of the wild west and in the imaginations of the film makers and narrative makers of the high era of American creativity, a film such as The Gunfighter (1950) carries many a surprise.