Can anyone think of any movies, that James Stewart played as a baddy???
Winchester ’73, 1950. While this film is credited with reviving the serious western, looking back on it today, its even greater legacy is its reinvention of Jimmy Stewart. Prior to this film, Stewart had already done crime films like Rope and Call Northside 777 in addition to his more famous Frank Capra roles, but here America saw Jimmy Stewart as they had never seen him before — cynical, angry, even outright ruthless. Watch the scene where Stewart is about to brutally break Dan Duryea’s arm, his eyes exploding out of his head, wild with pure rage, then imagine what the desperate lead characters in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or It’s a Wonderful Life could have been capable of. Amazingly this scene is not even the most memorable one in the film — and its not even second! The first occurs when Stewart happens on the man he has been stalking, Dutch Henry Brown. When they see each other, Stewart and Dutch Henry (played by Stephen McNally) both bolt to their feet and instinctively grab
