Much as I deplore Mr. James Stewart's escape from his responsibilities into the lazy histrionics of the Western, I must admit that in The Naked Spur he seizes every opportunity to act with all his familiar subtlety. Full Review

His every move meets resistance. In this grim cavalcade of paranoia on the hoof, the verbal jabs never let up. Full Review

A plein air chamber piece and a masterwork of location shooting Full Review

Rating: A -- Wonderfully intense psychological Western built around a simple story of greed and the chance to start life over again after failure. Full Review

Rating: A- -- In this taut revenge Western, from Oscar-nominated script by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, Jimmy Stewart gives one of his best performances, revealing a darker facet to his screen persona that only a superb director like Anthony Mann could bring out Full Review

[A] vividly physical experience, in which the California and Colorado mountain locations are just as forcefully present and alive as the thick-skinned yet surprisingly vulnerable characters.

Mann never failed to deliver an astonishing ending to his Westerns, but this is one of his best. Full Review