BS映画劇場で西部劇「ララミーから来た男」を見ました。1955年アメリカ映画で何と初めての「シネマスコープ」(スクリーンの縦横の比率は1対2.35)だって昔懐かしいな言葉だね。
監督アンソニー・マン。主演ジェームス・スチュアート、敵役の悪者はいつもお馴染みの アーサー・ケネデイ。
アメリカ陸軍大尉ウイル・ロックハートがアパッチ族に銃を売る悪人を探し求める。何故か彼は美女と愛の言葉を交わさず去って行く。
○On BS movie program I saw a western movie "The Man from Laramie".
It was a 1955 American movie.
It was the first time of "Cinemascope"(the ratio of vertical and horizontal screen 1 vs. 2.35) I think "Cinemascope"nostalgic words.
○Director Anthony Mann. Starring James Stewart, Supporting the bad guys Arthur Kennedy.
○ An US Army Captain Will Lockhart , seek a villain who sell the gun to the Apache. End of movie Will Lockhart go away not exchanged a word of love with beauty.
○The Man from Laramie is a 1955 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, and Cathy O'Donnell.
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○Plot summary(Wikipedia)
Will Lockhart (James Stewart) becomes entangled in the happenings of Coronado, an isolated western town, after delivering supplies there from Laramie. He immediately ends up at odds with the Waggomans, an influential ranching family. Lockhart is quietly searching for information about someone selling repeating rifles to the local Apaches; his brother, an Army cavalry trooper, was killed in an Apache attack at Dutch Creek.
Cattle baron Alec Waggoman (Donald Crisp) is haunted by dreams of a stranger who intends to kill his son. He is also gradually losing his eyesight and cannot count on his son Dave (Alex Nicol), a vicious and arrogant man who refuses to learn how to run the ranch the way his father wants it done.Lockhart is told by Barbara Waggoman (Cathy O'Donnell), Alec's niece, that he can collect salt for free and haul it away for freight but Dave Waggoman accuses him of stealing, shoots six of Lockhart's mules and burns his three wagons. Lockhart returns to town, engages first Dave and then ranch foreman Vic Hansbro (Arthur Kennedy) in a fistfight. Alec Waggoman shows up and offers Lockhart restitution for his lost property.
Vic considers himself a second on to Alec and is engaged to marry Barbara Waggoman. But when pus comes to shove, Alec sides with his son, being a blood relative. Alec holds Vic responsible for the damage Dave caused to Lockhart's wagons and mules (for which the old man paid $600 in restitution) and threatens to withhold it from Vic's pay. After this confrontation, Vic rides after Dave and catches him trying to contact the Apaches to sell them another two hundred repeating rifles for which the Apaches have paid in advance. Vic shoots Dave and then lets Alec believe that Lockhart was responsible.
Lockhart takes refuge with a rival rancher, Kate Canady (Aline MacMahon), who wishes she and Waggoman could declare a truce. Alec goes over some old bills and find a bill for wire fence that is very overpriced. He suspects that it conceals a rifle purchase and sets out to discover for himself whether it was true that his son Dave was involved in selling rifles to the Apaches. Vic attempts to talk him out of it, but the old man is determined to find out the truth. Just before he reaches the wagon, Vic and he scuffle and he is accidentally pushed off his horse and down a hill. Assuming the old man is dead, Vic rides away.
Lockhart finds Alec and takes him to Kate to tend to his wounds. Vic is anxious because Alec Waggoman is still alive and can identify him. Alec tells Will that it was Dave who was selling the Indians rifles and who therefore was responsible for the death of Will's brother. Lockhart finds Vic using a smoke signal to call for the Apaches to come for their rifles. Lockhart is unable to shoot him down in cold blood, but forces Vic to help him push the wagon off the hilltop and destroy the rifles. Vic rides away but is attacked and killed by the band of Apaches who paid for the rifles.
Lockhart leaves town, but admits to Barbara Waggoman that he is Captain Lockhart, a cavalry officer in the U.S. Army.
Barbara intends to leave Coronado and head back east. Lockhart tells her she will be passing through Laramie on the way and to ask anyone where to find Captain Lockhart.
