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Man of the West

Movie
1958
1h 40m
English
Western
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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Gary Cooper
Link Jones
Julie London
Billie Ellis
Lee J Cobb
Dock Tobin
Arthur OConnell
Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
Coaley
John Dehner
Claude Tobin
Joe Dominguez
Mexican Man (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Signe Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Tom London
Tom (uncredited)
Tina Menard
Juanita (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Henry (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited...
Glen Walters
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Conductor (uncredited)
Jack Williams
Alcutt (uncredited)
Directed By: Anthony Mann
Written By: Reginald Rose (Screenplay), Will C. Brown (Novel)

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soonertbone says...
6 months ago
Interesting movie that never quite came together for me, despite a good performance from Cooper and an outstanding performance by Cobb. The central conflict between a one-time outlaw reconnecting with his former posse is really engaging, but the plot machinations to get there didn't make a whole lot of sense. Throw in a couple of unnecessary side characters and it went on and off the rails throughout.
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John Chard
6 years ago
Another Intelligent Western from Anthony Mann.

Link Jones is on his way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher, having left his wife and children behind, Link appears to be the epitome of the simple honest man. However, the train he is on is robbed by outlaws, thus meaning that Link's past and his More
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CinemaSerf
a month ago
This is a much grittier western than I am used to from Anthony Mann; giving Gary Cooper much more to get his teeth into than the usual, simple, gun-slinging fayre. He plays a reformed outlaw who is caught up in a train ambush. "Link" escapes with two other passengers and makes his way to an old home More
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