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01/10/1958 Western 1h 40m
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IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST

Overview

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.

  1. Anthony Mann

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gary Cooper

    Link Jones

  2. Julie London

    Billie Ellis

  3. Lee J. Cobb

    Dock Tobin

  4. Arthur O'Connell

    Sam Beasley

  5. Jack Lord

    Coaley

  6. John Dehner

    Claude Tobin

  7. Royal Dano

    Trout

  8. Robert J. Wilke

    Ponch

  9. Joe Dominguez

    Mexican Man (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-12-04
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 homestead - only to find it occupied by the men who attacked the train; and that they are his former gang. His uncle "Dock" - Lee J. Cobb - is determined to lead him back down the path of violence. The psychological nature of this gives it a little more depth - sadly, though, neither Cobb, Cooper nor Ju...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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