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The Tin Star

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Original title

The Tin Star

Year

1957

Running time

93 min.

Country

United States

Director

Anthony Mann

Screenwriter

Dudley Nichols

Cast

Music

Elmer Bernstein

Cinematography

Loyal Griggs (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Western

Synopsis

Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a rather schematic character study about a lawman-turned-bounty-hunter (Henry Fonda) who undertakes the professional shaping-up of an effete young sheriff (Anthony Perkins) too tentative to police the streets of his town. Those streets are compositionally present right outside the oversize window of the office where Perkins undergoes a lot of his soul-searching and arguments with Fonda. That's typical of the film--scrupulously designed, yet abstract to the point of dramatic aridity.

Rankings Position

#68 Best Westerns in the history of film

Awards: 1957: Oscar: Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

1957: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Film

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The Tin Star

1957

Anthony Mann

7.2

(1,686)