Direction: Anthony Mann

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Anthony Mann. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Winchester '73

1950 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Shelley Winters · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Synopsis In the Old West, cowboy Lin McAdam wins a valuable Winchester 1873 repeating rifle in a shooting contest - which the runner-up contestant instantly steals. This leads to a rousing series of adventures for McAdam, as he attempts to track...

7.8

6K votes

7.8

6K votes

Bend of the River

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams

Synopsis Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland and as winter nears, it is necessary for McLyntock and...

7.6

8K votes

7.6

8K votes

The Far Country

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Ruth Roman · Corinne Calvet · Walter Brennan

Synopsis One of the best Mann/Stewart Westerns of the '50s with a refreshing Yukon setting. Stewart drives cattle north on an arduous trek to Alaska. When he reaches his destination, his pay-off for his trouble is double-cross and violence.

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

The Man from Laramie

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Donald Crisp · Aline MacMahon

Synopsis Mysterious Will Lockhart delivers supplies to storekeeper Barbara Waggoman at Coronado, an isolated town in Apache country. Before long, he's tangled with Dave Waggoman, vicious son of autocratic rancher Alec and cousin of sweet Barbara. But he sticks around town,...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

The Naked Spur

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Robert Ryan · Janet Leigh · Millard Mitchell

Synopsis Howard Kemp (James Stewart) is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) for a long time. Along the way in Colorado, Kemp is forced to take on a couple of partners, an old prospector named Jesse...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

The Tin Star

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Henry Fonda · Anthony Perkins · Betsy Palmer · Michel Ray

Synopsis Anthony Mann made some of the greatest Westerns of the 1950s, all in partnership with James Stewart. Perhaps needing to prove himself as his own man, in 1957 Mann dropped out of Night Passage to do this film. It's a...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Man of the West

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Gary Cooper · Julie London · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Men in War

1957 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Robert Ryan · Aldo Ray · Robert Keith · Vic Morrow

Synopsis In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Devil's Doorway

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Robert Taylor · Louis Calhern · Paula Raymond · Marshall Thompson

Synopsis A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

7.0

760 votes

7.0

760 votes

The Furies

1950 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Walter Huston · Judith Anderson

Synopsis The 1870s, New Mexico territory: T.C. Jeffords is a cattle baron who built his ranch, the Furies, from scratch. He borrows from banks, pays hired hands with his own script ("T.C.'s"), and carries on low-level warfare with the Mexicans who...

7.0

550 votes

7.0

550 votes

Side Street

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Farley Granger · Cathy O'Donnell · James Craig · Paul Kelly

Synopsis Joe Norson (Farley Granger), a poor letter carrier with a sweet, pregnant wife, Ellen (Cathy O'Donnell), yields to momentary temptation and steals $30,000 belonging to a pair of ruthless blackmailers who won't stop at murder. After a few days of...

7.0

279 votes

7.0

279 votes

The Glenn Miller Story

1953 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · June Allyson · Harry Morgan · Barton MacLane

Synopsis James Stewart, at his warmest and most avuncular, plays the bandleader who rocketed to fame during the swing era. The Glenn Miller Story may be a whitewashed version of Miller's life, but it certainly is a pleasant example of the...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

The Tall Target

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Dick Powell · Paula Raymond · Adolphe Menjou · Marshall Thompson

Synopsis A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.

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6.8

184 votes

6.8

184 votes

The Great Flamarion

1945 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Mary Beth Hughes · Dan Duryea · Steve Barclay

Synopsis Flamarion, expert marksman, is entertaining people in a show which features Connie, beautiful woman and her husband Al. Flamarion and Connie fall in love and decide to get rid of the alcoholic husband.

6.8

722 votes

6.8

722 votes

Cimarron

1960 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Glenn Ford · Maria Schell · Anne Baxter · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis Adapted from Edna Ferber's sweeping novel, the life of an American family, from the 1890s through the 1920s, who move to Oklahoma territory. The epic western chronicles the founding of the Oklahoma town of Osage, and the lives of the...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

God's Little Acre

1958 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Robert Ryan · Tina Louise · Aldo Ray · Buddy Hackett

Synopsis A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God's Little...

6.7

382 votes

6.7

382 votes

T-Men

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Mary Meade · Alfred Ryder · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Two agents from the U.S. Treasury Department just got in over their heads. Partners Dennis O'Brien and Tony Genaro are ordered by their superiors to infiltrate the notorious gang behind the "Shanghai Paper Case". They soon ingratiate themselves into the...

6.7

628 votes

6.7

628 votes

El Cid

1961 · Movie · 184 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Charlton Heston · Sophia Loren · Raf Vallone · John Fraser

Synopsis Eleventh-century Spain is divided into Christian kingdoms and Moorish strongholds. The young Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar--dubbed El Cid by his followers--vows to see his country at peace, free from the invader. Vigorously brave and resourceful, the noble knight hates bloodshed...

6.7

8K votes

6.7

8K votes

Raw Deal

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Claire Trevor · Marsha Hunt · John Ireland

Synopsis Violent and viscerally sexual, Anthony Mann's muscular low-budget noir tells the tale of a framed gangster's quest for vengeance after he busts out of prison. Once freed, gangster Joe Sullivan and his girl friend Pat set off to find the...

6.7

605 votes

6.7

605 votes

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964 · Movie · 188 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Stephen Boyd · Christopher Plummer · Alec Guinness

Synopsis Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir,...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes