Winchester ‘73 - 1950 - 7/10
Outstanding Noir, cloaked in Western settings.
Two journeys:
Bent on revenge, cowboy Lin searches for outlaw Dutch Brown.
Parallel narrative tracks the Winchester rifle as it passes from hand to hand.
Violent film altered Jimmy Stewart’s usual comedy / drama personas into harder edged.
Classic Hollywood, with impressive casting (Shelley Winters, Dam Duryea, Will Geer, and newcomers).
The DVD features an interesting, if rambling, commentary from Stewart, recorded in 1989 for LD.
He never stays on-topic, but listening is akin to sitting on a sofa beside him, hearing one story after another.