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13 March 1959 (Finland)
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From The Prize Novel -- A Picture Of Thundering Power!
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Character study of a Doctor who saves a local criminal from a mob who are trying to hang him, but then tries to control the life of the young man...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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"Give me a Kiss"
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(Complete credited cast) | Gary Cooper | ... | Dr. Joseph 'Doc' Frail |
 | Maria Schell | ... | Elizabeth Mahler |
 | Karl Malden | ... | Frenchy Plante |
 | George C. Scott | ... | Dr. George Grubb |
| Karl Swenson | ... | Tom Flaunce |
| Virginia Gregg | ... | Edna Flaunce |
| John Dierkes | ... | Society Red |
| King Donovan | ... | Wonder |
| Ben Piazza | ... | Rune, Frail's Bond Servant |
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107 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Takes place in Montana, 1873.
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Edited into Meine Schwester Maria (2002)
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THE HANGING TREE
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The Hanging Tree (1959) is one of my favorite Westerns. Like the other great movies of the genre, it has more to do with human relationships than sagebrush, cattle, and shootouts. This isn't to say that there aren't plenty of action scenes in The Hanging Tree; We have a fistfight, a beating, a shooting, and a mining town set ablaze, but all of this is a backdrop to love, deceit, greed, jealousy, and intolerance.
Gary Cooper, ill during filming, brings his sinister character, Doc Joe Frail, to life with a leathery, wise, and weary portrayal. This is HIS movie.
Much of the movie was filmed in the hills above Yakima, Washington. The sets were located up a old logging road that the Washington State Patrol had barricaded in order to keep onlookers away. George C. Scott (in his debut movie) told how Gary Cooper, ill with lung cancer, would make the mile-long walk down that logging road, and back again, just to sign autographs for his fans. What a man!
There is one scene out of many that I particularly like. In it, a poor miner and his wife have brought their daughter in to see Doc Frail because she "is doin' poorly".
Doc looks at the girl, turns to her parents and tells them that the child is malnourished. And he, realizing that they are struggling, suggests that they take a cow that he he has tied-up outside and to "fatten this child up on some milk".
The mom and dad look very embarrassed; They don't have money for a cow. "We don't know how we can pay you for it, Doc", the father says, stepping forward.
This killer-turned-doctor, looks at the girl and says, "Give me a kiss".
After the girl obeys (and she's an adorable Beanie Baby-type) he smiles and says, "I've been paid".
--- and so have we.