Stranger on Horseback
Jacques Tourneur, Fearmaker
December 14, 2018 - January 3, 2019
Expansive beyond its compact running time, this superb, painterly western stars Joel McCrea as a rugged judge who sets out to bring justice to an untamed frontier town—whether by law book or by rifle.
The first of two superb westerns Tourneur made in 1955 with Joel McCrea (followed by Wichita), this adaptation of a Louis L’Amour story casts the actor as a rugged circuit court judge whose determination to bring the rule of law to an untamed frontier town brings him into conflict with a powerful, proudly defiant family and their imperious, whip-cracking niece (mononymous spitfire Miroslava). Though just over an hour, Stranger on Horseback achieves a sublime expansiveness thanks to the painterly Ansco color cinematography and Tourneur’s intelligent handling of one of his pet themes: the quest for order in an essentially chaotic world.
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