The Naked Spur

About The Naked Spur

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur is a 1953 western film. It runs 91 minutes and was released in January 1953.

The film is filed under outlaw, greed, bounty hunter, and ambush.

James Stewart appears as Howard Kemp, Janet Leigh as Lina Patch, Robert Ryan as Ben Vandergroat, and Ralph Meeker as Roy Anderson. The screenplay is by Harold Jack Bloom and Sam Rolfe.

Young Guns II, The Great Silence, and Ride Lonesome make useful companions to The Naked Spur, all filed under escape. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 275 votes.