Man of the West
IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST
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10/1/1958Runtime
100 minsGenres
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Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.
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A psychologically dark western where a reformed man must confront his violent past and the criminals who raised him, navigating deception and moral compromise in a confrontation he cannot escape. The film explores how thoroughly a man can shed his former self, and what it costs.
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Gary Cooper
Link Jones
Julie London
Billie Ellis
Lee J. Cobb
Dock Tobin
Arthur O'Connell
Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
Coaley
John Dehner
Claude Tobin
Royal Dano
Trout
Robert J. Wilke
Ponch
Joe Dominguez
Mexican Man (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
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