1956’s The Last Frontier

I honestly thought that I’d seen all of Anthony Mann’s great Westerns from the 1950s: Winchester ‘73, The Naked Spur, Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie. Nevertheless, a few months ago I stumbled across yet another terrific Western he directed, The Last Frontier. The reasons I believe that this isn’t a well-remembered Mann film are: 1. It doesn’t star James Stewart, like the others do. 2. It covers so much ground that you have no idea what the film was actually about when