James Stewart, Ruth Roman, Corinne Calvet, Walter Brennan, John McIntire, Jay C. Flippen, Henry Morgan, Steve Brodie, Connie Gilchrist, Robert Wilke, Chubby Johnson, Royal Dano, Jack Elam, Kathleen Freeman, Connie Van. Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Wide screen (1.85:1 and 2.00:1) Disc 1: Film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1; audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin; American frontiers: Anthony Mann at Universal, an all-new documentary with film historian Alan K. Rode, western author C. Courtney Joyner, script supervisor Michael Preece, and critics Michael Schlesinger and Rob Word; Mann of the West, a newly filmed appraisal of The far country and the westerns of Anthony Mann by the critic Kim Newman; theatrical trailer; image galleries. Disc 2: Film in the alternate original aspect ratio of 2.00:1; audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin. Includes a booklet with an essay by Phillip Kemp.
Summary:
A self-minded adventurer and his sidekick lock horns with a crooked lawman while driving cattle to Dawson City, Yukon.
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