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Overview

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7.3/10   1,785 votes
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Director:
Anthony Mann
Writers:
Will C. Brown (novel)
Reginald Rose (screenplay)
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Release Date:
9 February 1959 (Sweden) more
Tagline:
IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST (original print ad - all caps)
Plot:
A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band. full summary | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Tough gritty western that influenced the Spaghetti Western more (33 total)

Cast

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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
Royal Dano ... Trout

Robert J. Wilke ... Ponch (as Robert Wilke)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Norway:16 (cut) | West Germany:18 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | UK:A (cut) | Australia:PG
Filming Locations:
California, USA more

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Trivia:
Screenwriter Philip Yordan had previously written a novel entitled "Man of the West", but it bears no relation at all to this film. Yordan's novel was filmed as Gun Glory (1957). more
Quotes:
Coaley: [to Link] Do you talk? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Adieu Gary (2009) more
Soundtrack:
Man of the West more

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Did Link Jones Have Children?
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15 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Tough gritty western that influenced the Spaghetti Western, 15 May 2005
7/10
Author: Chung Mo from NYC

There is a bit wrong with this film. Gary Cooper's age versus Lee Cobb's. The coincidental stranding of Julie London and Arthur O'Conell after the train robbery. The abrupt ending.

There is quite a bit not wrong also. The outdoor photography. The interior train scenes seem to have been entirely shot on a real train going down the tracks, not a set with rear projection. All the settings are real looking not Hollywood whitewash. Gary Cooper is low-key but builds his conflicted character well. The villains are among the nastiest one can see in pre-1960's westerns. They really lay the groundwork for the stock western psycho in later Spaghetti Westerns. Jack Lord plays a real maniac!

Mann's eye for visual composition really adds to the psychological atmosphere. You can see the influence on Leone and it seems like Leone imitated a couple of shots from this film. The set design for the town of Lasso could have been used in any Italian western.

A good, if depressing, alternate western.

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