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The FAR COUNTRY (1954) Was the forth and penultimate Western from this director and star pairing of Anthony Mann and James Stewart and without doubt puts them second only to John Ford and John Wayne in making fine Western movies that have stood the test of time for over fifty years. Unlike Ford who almost exclusively returned time after time to Monument valley, Mann picked wonderful new locations for each of his Westerns, this time being the awesome landscape of Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
The story (as with previous outings) is from a Borden Chase script and has tough cattleman Jeff Webster (James Stewart) and his sidekick Ben Tatum (Walter Brennan) meeting up in 1896 Seattle, hearing of the gold rush Jeff decides to take his cattle to Dawson City en-route he falls foul of no-good Skagway judge, sheriff Gannon (John McItire). Webster finds himself jailed. Gannon releases him but confiscates Jeff's cattle. Jeff agrees to lead a party of eager prospectors up to Dawson with eager support from saloon owner Rhonda Castle (Ruth Roman) and young French Canadian girl Renee Vallon (Connie Calvet) as they near the Canadian border Jeff and Ben slip back one night and steal the cattle back, returning to the border with Gannon and his cronies in hot pursuit, Jeff manages to delay the pursuers long enough to allow everyone to cross the border into Canada.
Delivering the cattle to Dawson and selling them to Rhonda Castle following an auction. Rhonda sets up a saloon along with new arrival Gannon. Meanwhile Jeff and Ben set off to do a little gold mining of their own. Trouble brews as Gannon and his motley band cheat the miners one by one from their claims. The miners and good town folk try to elect Jeff as marshal, but he refuses so local man Rube Morris (J C Flippen) is elected. After a killing in Rhonda's saloon Rude is left facing one of Gannon's hired guns, Jeff suggesting that he backs down to save his life. Rube loses face and resigns, and then follows more claim jumping until only a few are left. Jeff and Ben receive their visit in due course and are ambushed when leaving camp, both are badly shot up and left for dead, Jeff somehow drags himself out of the river recovers Ben's body and heads for town. Renee takes Jeff in and tends his wounds as he vows to get those responsible. After a partial recovery Jeff sets out for the final showdown with Gannon and his men holed up in the saloon.
This Universal DVD release 94 minutes running time has no special extras apart from the original Trailer, which is a pity as all these Mann / Stewart Westerns deserve to be preserved in the best possible way, good value for little money though! Last but not least to look out for in this series is THE MAN FROM LARAMIE (1955).
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If this western thrills you, life must be pretty dull. The plot is barely understandable within the first 45 minutes. No characters emerge as more than one dimensional. Ruth Roman, huge bra and full makeup on the trail, smirks a lot. Corinne Calvet, 30 years old, is supposed to be a sex-starved teen and is given many embarrassing lines. Walter Brennan plays Walter Brennan. The villains sneer and scowl. Jimmy Stewart glares a lot and is supposedly tough. And then the big shoot-out. Save your five bucks; the scenery isn't worth it.
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Some nice location shooting is wasted in a standard western. The female characters are particularly irritating and one-dimensional. This is definitely the worst Anthony Mann/James Stewart pairing.
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In "The Far Country", James Stewart and Anthony Mann are off on yet another popular Western storyline, their 4th together...
The traditional plot, situation, and dialog are compensated somewhat by the wonderful scenery of the Canadian Northwest, evocatively captured by Mann's camera...
Stewart's familiar supporting cast (Jay C. Flippen and Harry Morgan) made their presence with Walter Brennan, the most decorated character actor in American Movies with 3 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor to his name... Brennan contributes his usual well known portrayal as an eccentric old companion of good spirit and intentions...
Stewart is a Wyoming cattleman who wants to make enough money to buy a ranch, so he drives his herd clear to Alaska and on to Dawson, in Canadian territory, where he sells them...
Along the trail he meets the baddie who runs the town behind a corrupt sheriff John McIntire... They try to steal him his cattle... Later, in Dawson, McIntire and his gang reappear, this time interfering with Stewart's gold claim...
In the film, Stewart has two leading ladies to contend with: Ruth Roman, a bit too precious to qualify convincingly as a tough sweet gale weathering the worst vicissitudes of the territory and the more gentle, the French Canadian girl Corinne Calvet who does create a nice portrait of a decent girl with good instincts... In conventional fashion, Stewart is torn between the flamboyant lady-gambler and the wife-candidate...
Anthony Mann's heroes are often thoughtful men forced into hysterical violence by their need to avenge a wrong or shameful past... They are neurotic and cynical - which is hardly surprising giving the amount of rough handling they have to suffer... In "The Man From Laramie" Stewart is dragged through a fire and has his hand shot through; in "The Far Country" he is shot up and thrown into a river...
Mann's villains are among the most corrupt, unbalanced and memorable to be found in any Western before or since, with Alex Nicol in "The Man From Laramie"; Robert Ryan in "The Naked Spur"; Dan Duryea in "Winchester'73" and the depraved, grandiosely evil Doc Tobin of Lee J. Cobb in "Man of the West" taking the highest honors...
If one ever needed convincing that Westerns are a genre to be taken seriously, the work of Anthony Mann would be evidence enough..
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The Far Country was one of the great collaborations between actor James Stewart and great director Anthony Mann. As all of their films did, The Far Country features great performances, a keen literate script, and wonderful direction.
Stewart plays a cowboy assisted by eternal codger Walter Brennan in driving cattle to Alaska. As always in the Stewart/Mann films, Stewart's character is a loner with a past, and he turns his back on what happens in the Alaskan town he settles in, which is ruled with iron-fistedness by John McIntire. McIntire cheats, kills, and run roughshod over everyone, but Stewart does nothing to stop him until tragedy ensues.
The Far Country is a great Northern Western, full of action and fury, but it is made complete by a wonderful partnership that made some of the best films of the 50's. And The Far Country was one of those films.
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