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Overview

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Director:
Victor Fleming
Writers:
Howard Estabrook (writer)
Grover Jones (adaptation)
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Release Date:
9 November 1929 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Tagline:
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Plot:
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling. full summary | add synopsis
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early archetypal western more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric System)
Certification:
USA:Approved
Filming Locations:
Lone Pine, California, USA more

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Trivia:
As in the novel and the play that the movie is based on, the Virginian's name is never mentioned. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Although the story spans the late 1870's through the early 1880's, Molly refers to her grandfather being killed in the Cherry Valley Massacre. As that took place in 1778, at least 100 years earlier, that seems highly unlikely. more
Quotes:
Trampas: Well, I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is runnin' away. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Knight Rider: Knight Moves (#1.19)" (1983) more
Soundtrack:
Pop! Goes the Weasel more

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early archetypal western, 8 June 1999
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Author: kaplan79 from colorado springs, CO

"The Virginian" is one of the first well-known western "talkies." Released in 1929 and starring Gary Cooper who later became one of the great heroes of the western genre, this movie contains all of the archetypal elements of classic western films. There is a lone hero who answers to his own moral code defined by his environment(the frontier). A "schoolmarm" from out East comes to civilize the West through education, and her values come into conflict with the hero she falls in love with. And there is a villain who abides by no moral code, who must be defeated by the hero to uphold his honor and his values.

The classic representations of good and evil through black and white are used extensively and effectively in this film. Cooper always wears white, the villain(Huston) always wears black. However, the most morally ambiguous character, Cooper's friend Steve, always wears a mixture of the colors, and as he continues down a dark path, his colors become darker and less ambivalent.

This is a pretty good movie, particularly the hanging scene, the shootout at the end, and basically any interaction between Cooper and Huston. What makes the movie even more entertaining and fascinating to watch is its context. This movie is considered to be one of the very first westerns to represent the classic elements of the western genre, and its influence on later westerns is quite clear. For film students and fans of the western genre alike, this is a fun film to watch and thoroughly enjoyable. (Note: very interesting comparisons can be made to later westerns, particularly "Shane" and another Cooper film, "High Noon")

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