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The Westerner

NR
Movie
1940
1h 40m
English
Action, Western, Romance
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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7.2
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Gary Cooper
Cole Harden
Walter Brennan
Judge Roy Bean
Doris Davenport
Jane Ellen Mathews
Fred Stone
Caliphet Mathews
Forrest Tucker
Wade Harper
Paul Hurst
Chickenfoot
Chill Wills
Southeast
Lilian Bond
Lily Langtry
Dana Andrews
Hod Johnson
Charles Halton
Mort Borrow
Trevor Bardette
Shad Wilkins
Tom Tyler
King Evans
Lucien Littlefield
The Stranger
CE Anderson
Hezekiah Willever (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Sheriff (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
Mr. Dixon - Homesteader (uncredited...
Bill Beauman
Man Getting Haircut (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Deputy (uncredited)
Gertrude Bennett
Abigail (uncredited)
Danny Borzage
Joe Yates (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Lily Langtry's Manager (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Man at Ticket Window (uncredited)
Philip Connor
John Yancy (uncredited)
Buck Connors
Abraham Wilson (uncredited)
Frank Cordell
Man (uncredited)
Directed By: William Wyler
Written By: Jo Swerling (Screenplay), Niven Busch (Screenplay), + 1 more

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Spiritualized Kaos says...
2 years ago
This city is too small for both of us.
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Though not given top billing in this cracking cowboy adventure - the film certainly belongs to Walter Brennan. He, rather uncharacteristically, portrays the quite nasty piece of work "Judge Roy Bean" of Vinegarroon. When "Cole Harden" (Gary Cooper) arrives in this backwater Texan town, he's accused More
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John Chard
6 years ago
Law West of the Pecos.

The Westerner is directed by William Wyler and written by Niven Busch, Jo Swerling and Stuart N. Lake. It stars Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Fred Stone and Doris Davenport. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Gregg Toland.

Story is a fictionalised account More
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