Anthony Mann

Jimmy Stewart's an offshore driller whose pumps upset the local shrimp fishermen in this naive oil epic. It could be titled There Won't Be Blood, for while the usually dependable director Anthony Mann sketches out the culture clash with ease,... ... Full Article

It just so happens that the fantasy world of the recent Alphabet Meme intersected with the reality world of a certain bank-owned revival house in a certain large Midwestern city. ... Full Article

Studio/Run Time : Criterion Collection, 109 mins. In A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies , the iconic filmmaker says that, of the four Westerns director Anthony Mann released in 1950, only " The Furies could have been... ... Full Article

There's a point in James Fitzpatrick's liner notes when the producer of this massive 3-disc set brands himself (humorously, of course) as an idiot for mounting a production of Miklos Rozsa's complete score for what's often termed his last great... ... Full Article

In short, he wrote about movies as though they were art or architecture, in sentences packed with the tersely lyrical detail of an Anthony Mann setup. ... Full Article

The 1950s were arguably the greatest years of the Western � the period in which clich�s were sustained and destabilized through psychology, revisionism, high style, and the kind of grandeur that follows when the most durable clich�s are reframed against... ... Full Article