The Naked Spur

“A masterpiece that’s too easy to take for granted (it’s a perfectly-told small story), The Naked Spur is an exciting action picture that packs a powerful emotional punch, climaxing in a classic fight in a rushing mountain river that resolves the plot and prompts one of Stewart’s great neurotic breakdown-catharsis scenes as he hauls the valuable corpse out of the water but acts as if he’s killed himself.”