Man of the West
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.
- Production
- Ashton Productions, Walter Mirisch Productions
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Cast
Gary Cooper
Link Jones
Julie London
Billie Ellis
Lee J. Cobb
Dock Tobin
Arthur O'Connell
Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
Coaley
John Dehner
Claude Tobin
Royal Dano
Trout
Robert J. Wilke
Ponch
Dick Elliott
Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Signe Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Tom London
Tom (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Henry (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Conductor (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Anthony Mann
- Writers
- Reginald Rose
- Producers
- Walter Mirisch
- Cinematography
- Ernest Haller
- Composer
- Leigh Harline
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John Chard
May 29, 2017
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 dubious family ties are all careering towards a day of reckoning. This was Anthony Mann's second to last foray into the Western genre, and perhaps his most clinical as regards a structured tale of…
CinemaSerf
December 4, 2024
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 ps…