Pocket Cinephile Western Essentials - # 9. Winchester '73, Anthony Mann, 1950

It's entirely possible to craft an essential Westerns list comprised solely of Anthony Mann films (and more will indeed appear higher on this list), but this concept driven film nudges onto the list ahead of equally rough hewn Mann films such as The Far Country (1954), The Furies (1950), and Bend of the River (1952) based almost solely on the strength of its epic final shootout, which ranks as the best of the genre and possibly in all of cinema.