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The Naked Spur
Directed by
Anthony Mann
Passed
1953
1h 31m
Western
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Drama
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7.3
100%
76%
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A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.
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Cast of The Naked Spur
James Stewart
Howard Kemp
Janet Leigh
Lina Patch
Robert Ryan
Ben Vandergroat
Ralph Meeker
Roy Anderson
Millard Mitchell
Jesse Tate
Anthony Mann
Director
Harold Jack Bloom
Writer
Sam Rolfe
Writer
William H. Wright
Producer
The Naked Spur Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
May 17, 2025
"The Naked Spur" is about five deeply flawed individuals who navigate a highly stressful situation with all the complications it brings. It's an excellent western, and I enjoyed it until the contrived moral conflict about collecting the reward on a confessed killer. But then they have no remorse about massacring a group of Native Americans.
InSession Film
Bianca Garner
What makes The Naked Spur so fascinating and gripping to watch is the power dynamics at play between the five main characters.
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Sean Axmaker
Stewart delivers the most ruthless performance of his career as a man haunted by betrayal unwilling to trust and unable to love and Ryan's jovial banter and charm masks a cold-blooded savagery.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a sporadically striking yet disappointingly erratic endeavor...
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Danielle Solzman
The Naked Spur is a beautifully cinematographed Western that would help in redefining the genre and features a top-notch performance from James Stewart.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
The film's minimalist structure gives way to a complex psychological cat-and-mouse game set against grand, symbolic scenery.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
An exemplary oater.
America Magazine
Moira Walsh
The Naked Spur is a well-executed and scenically magnificent Technicolor Western of the "human nature in the raw is seldom mild" school.
The Nation
Manny Farber
Perhaps there is too much predictable plot complication here to please old Anthony Mann fans, but his particular gifts are evident anyway.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A plein air chamber piece and a masterwork of location shooting
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
This rock-solid Western is brisk, terse, and full of excellent performances..and for once, a Jimmy Stewart film doesn't find its leading man stealing the show!
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Kelly Vance
His every move meets resistance. In this grim cavalcade of paranoia on the hoof, the verbal jabs never let up.
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Emanuel Levy
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
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Mann never failed to deliver an astonishing ending to his Westerns, but this is one of his best.
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
...an engrossing little film that doesn't flinch from showing us the worst in people, including the hero.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Wonderfully intense psychological Western built around a simple story of greed and the chance to start life over again after failure.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Bob Bloom
One of Stewart's best tortured performances, showing his dark side. A must-see for Stewart buffs.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This 1953 film has Janet Leigh in jeans, beautiful location shooting (and Technicolor cinematography) in the Rockies, and some of the most intense psychological warfare to be found in [director Anthony] Mann's angular and anguished oeuvre.
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