a i drive from skagway and alaska to dawson city and yukon a couple of year ago and be impress with the scenery and i can not help but wish that this film even though it have beautiful color and scenic view would have be shoot in the actual location . jasper in the canadian rockies be a magnificent place and but still not the real place where the film take place . when the story move to dawson and that be when i feel anthony mann and who use the outdoor location so well and could have make the most if he film in the actual place . james stewart here be again a man fight within himself and one side of him do not want to get involve and help people who stand in the way of him make money and and the other side just be not able to look away from people be murder . ruth roman be the ambitious woman who do not care on whom she step and corinne calvet be the nice girl . mann be excellent direct the shootout and but the high point of the film be how well he do in the outdoor scene . he use the outdoors as much a he can and he be help by the winter scenery and the predominating white and like it be with the green in the naked spur and the brown in the man from laramie . like all of the mann stewart and this be a traditional western and with a difference in the elaboration of stewart character which be more complex .