Man of the West

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Man of the West

1958,

1h 40m,

Western

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94%

18 Reviews

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76%

500+ Ratings

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94%

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18 Reviews

76%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

Ex-outlaw Link Jones (Gary Cooper) is aboard a train when it is robbed by bandits. When he tries to intervene, he's knocked out and left in the middle of nowhere with saloon singer Billie (Julie London), whom he hoped to hire as a schoolteacher in his town, and Sam (Arthur O'Connell), a con man. Link brings the three to his nearby former home, now the hideout for the bandits, who are led by his uncle (Lee J. Cobb) -- and to save his new friends, he must rejoin the old gang for one last holdup.

Derek Malcolm

Guardian

Mar 12, 2015

Mann's direction is immaculate, making Reginald Rose's clearly allegorical, and sometimes forced, screenplay seem even better than it is.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

Mar 12, 2015

4/5

Anthony Mann's terrific final western is a potent examination of one man's battle against his own darker impulses.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

Cooper gives a characteristically virile performance, his dominance of the outlaws quietly believable, while London achieves some touching and convincing moments in a difficult role.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Dec 16, 2023

The great western director Anthony Mann and aging western icon Gary Cooper teamed up for the first and only time in [this] stark frontier drama of a trio of train passengers stranded in the desert after a railway holdup.

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Cory Woodroof

615 Film

Aug 11, 2022

The antithesis of sweeping – carefully constructed, fierce, enveloping, unforgiving. Quite a film.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Mar 21, 2022

4/4

Man of the West is Anthony Mann's shining conceptual project and his last great Western.

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Hermione G

Mar 25, 2015

1001 movies to see before you die.

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Link Jones

Julie London

Billie Ellis

Lee J. Cobb

Dock Tobin

Arthur O'Connell

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Synopsis

Ex-outlaw Link Jones (Gary Cooper) is aboard a train when it is robbed by bandits. When he tries to intervene, he's knocked out and left in the middle of nowhere with saloon singer Billie (Julie London), whom he hoped to hire as a schoolteacher in his town, and Sam (Arthur O'Connell), a con man. Link brings the three to his nearby former home, now the hideout for the bandits, who are led by his uncle (Lee J. Cobb) -- and to save his new friends, he must rejoin the old gang for one last holdup.

Director: Anthony Mann
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Screenwriter: Will C. Brown, Reginald Rose
Distributor: Warner Home Vídeo, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., United Artists
Production Co: Ashton Productions
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 1, 1958, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Mono

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