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Tin Star [DVD] [1957]

DVD ~ Henry Fonda
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  • Actors: Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand
  • Directors: Anthony Mann
  • Writers: Barney Slater, Dudley Nichols, Joel Kane
  • Producers: George Seaton, William Perlberg
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: To be announced
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
  • DVD Release Date: 13 Aug 2007
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000RGSXLA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,824 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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When a small town's sheriff is murdered, inexperienced deputy Ben Owens (Anthony Perkins) steps in as a temporary replacement. Idealistic and eager to succeed, Owens enlists the services of ex-lawman turned bounty hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Ford) to help him grow into his new role. The cynical, world-weary Hickman forges a bond with the younger man as he confronts his own lost idealism and falls in love with a widow (Betsy Palmer) who shares his outcast status. A leisurely but engaging character-driven Western.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Anthony Mann's best post-James Stewart Western, 23 Aug 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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The Tin Star is full of Anthony Mann's typical plays on perspective and symmetry, the cinematic possibilities of which few other directors have ever really grasped - not merely visual but emotional and thematic as well (the opening shot is repeated in reverse as the closing shot, but with an entirely different meaning). Although it's set mostly in the town limits as Henry Fonda's embittered bounty hunter finds himself reluctantly passing on tips to the temporary sheriff (Anthony Perkins, still a nice, awkward young guy here before a lifetime of psychopathic typecasting), his great use of location to define and place characters is omnipresent: check out the great sheriff's office with its huge window overlooking the town which puts both men at the heart of the town while effectively keeping them outside it. Indeed, the film is all about outsiders either trying to belong or trying to dominate, throwing in a surprising subplot about racism that allies its misfits and broken angels.

Fonda makes a superb replacement for Stewart (the director and his favored star fell out on Night Passage), Neville Brand's tough bad `un, who wants Perkins' badge for a hunting license, makes a worthy adversary and the final showdown is brilliantly staged, and Elmer Bernstein's score is a definite plus (and a world away from the south of the border energy of his post-Magnificent Seven genre efforts). Mann's last great Western, it deserves to be better known.

Sadly, no extras - not even a trailer.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Anthony Mann's best post-James Stewart Western, 7 Nov 2006
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tin Star [DVD] [1957] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
The Tin Star is full of Anthony Mann's typical plays on perspective and symmetry, the cinematic possibilities of which few other directors have ever really grasped - not merely visual but emotional and thematic as well (the opening shot is repeated in reverse as the closing shot, but with an entirely different meaning). Although it's set mostly in the town limits as Henry Fonda's embittered bounty hunter finds himself reluctantly passing on tips to the temporary sheriff (Anthony Perkins, still a nice, awkward young guy here before a lifetime of psychopathic typecasting), his great use of location to define and place characters is omnipresent: check out the great sheriff's office with its huge window overlooking the town which puts both men at the heart of the town while effectively keeping them outside it. Indeed, the film is all about outsiders either trying to belong or trying to dominate, throwing in a surprising subplot about racism that allies its misfits and broken angels.

Fonda makes a superb replacement for Stewart (the director and his favored star fell out on Night Passage), Neville Brand's tough bad `un, who wants Perkins' badge for a hunting license, makes a worthy adversary and the final showdown is brilliantly staged, and Elmer Bernstein's score is a definite plus (and a world away from the south of the border energy of his post-Magnificent Seven genre efforts). Mann's last great Western, it deserves to be better known.

Sadly, no extras - not even a trailer.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD OFFERING., 25 April 2008
i must admit i put this film in the dvd player and my heart sank because its black/white,it does not tell you that in the information about the film.but when you start watching the film it soon puts you back in a good mood,henry fonda has that touch of class about him thats hard to resist,anthony mann directs another classic western he was probabley the best in the business and that includes the great john ford.
fonda plays a bounty hunter who brings his prey in to collect the bounty,the young sheriff has just started the job and fonda can see that unless he is guided he will soon be dead,fonda shows the sheriff the ropes but declines an offer of a badge.its not long before trouble arrives for the sheriff ,will fonda help the sheriff or ride out and condemn him you will have to see the film to find out ,i can assure you this film is good very good indeed even in black/white.
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