The Far Country (LWM)

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Far Country, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Far Country, 1955.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Far Country, 1955.

James Stewart as Webster, cattle man from Wyoming, with partner Walter Brennan, tangles with Ronda Castle (Ruth Roman, backed up by Steve Brodie), who’s hired him drive supplies to the gold strike in the Alaskan interior, explaining afterwards to the admiring Renee (Corinne Calvet), in The Far Country, 1955, from director Anthony Mann.

A good stiff Anthony Mann opening, though with a different setting in 1896 Seattle, James Stewart arrives with cattle, greeted by partner Walter Brennan, disciplining the two hands (Terry Frost, Don Harvey) he didn’t kill, opening the Alaska Gold Rush Western, The Far Country, 1955.

Just docked in Skagway, Alaska with his cattle from Wyoming, James Stewart as Jeff Webster, fleeing a trumped-up murder charge, encounters the local law (John McIntire as “Judge” Gannon), rescued by his partners (Walter Brennan, Jay C. Flippen), Ruth Roman with ironic observations, early in Anthony Mann’s The Far Country, 1955.

Two cowboys on the road to Alaska help a wagon train in trouble in Anthony Mann's The Far Country (1955) starring James Stewart.