Winchester '73 (1950)

July 12, 1950

Winchester '73 is a 1950 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea and Stephen McNally. Written by Borden Chase and Robert L. Richards, the film is about the journey of a prized rifle from one ill-fated owner to another and a cowboy's search for a murderous fugitive. It is the first Western film collaboration between Mann and Stewart, the first of seven films they made together, and was filmed in black and white.

Among the film's cast of supporting actors, Rock Hudson portrays a Native American and Tony Curtis plays a besieged cavalry trooper, both in small roles at the beginning of their careers.

The film received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Western. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Storyline

A cowboy's obsession with a stolen rifle leads to a bullet-ridden odyssey through the American West.

Sound Effects Used

• H-B GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 05
• H-B GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 06
• RICOCHET - LONG WARBLY FALLING RICCO
• Sound Ideas, COMEDY - RICOCHET ACCENT FOR MOVEMENT 06
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - SINGLE RICOCHET, BULLET 02
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - SINGLE RICOCHET, BULLET 06
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - FIRE AND COCK 01
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - FIRE AND COCK 02
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 01 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 02 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 03 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 04 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 05 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 06 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 07 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 08 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 09 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 10 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 11 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 12 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - SINGLE SHOT 13 (Universal Studios)
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - THREE SHOTS
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - TWO SHOTS
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - WINCHESTER: FOUR RAPID SHOTS
• Sound Ideas, GUN, RIFLE - WINCHESTER: MANY SHOTS
• Sound Ideas, GUN, SHOT GUN - SINGLE SHOT 01
• Sound Ideas, GUN, SHOT GUN - SINGLE SHOT 02
• Sound Ideas, GUN, SHOT GUN - SINGLE SHOT 03
• Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SHOT AND WHINE
• Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 01 (Debut)
• Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - SLICK RICCO 02 (Debut)