Man of the West
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| Directed by | Anthony Mann |
| Produced by | Walter Mirisch |
| Written by | Will C. Brown (novel) Reginald Rose (screenplay) |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Julie London Lee J. Cobb |
| Music by | Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller |
| Editing by | Victor Heerman Richard V. Heerman |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | October 1, 1958 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Language | English |
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Man of the West is a 1958 western film directed by Anthony Mann in his last film in the genre. The screenplay, written by Reginald Rose, is based on the novel The Border Jumpers by Will C. Brown.
When first released, the film was largely ignored by American critics, though renowned French critic Jean-Luc Godard regarded the film as the best released that year. In the decades since the film's release, it has garnered a cult following as well as considerably greater acclaim from professional critics. Some, such as The Guardian's Derek Malcolm consider the film Mann's best[1] and a landmark in the western genre canon. Malcolm included the film in his 2000 list The Century of Film.
[edit] Plot
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones (Gary Cooper) is stranded with saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London) and gambler Sam Beasley (Arthur O'Connell) when the train they are riding is held up. For shelter, Jones leads the group to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack--they were in fact the train robbers--Jones pretends to having "come back" to a life of crime. Only the gang's crazed leader, "Uncle" Dock Tobin (Lee J. Cobb), accepts Jones's story, and he decides to revive a long-planned robbery scheme. As Jones plays for time, he struggles with his background as a criminal, and the outlaws begin to lose patience.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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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 |
| Royal Dano | Trout |
| John Dehner | Claude |
| Robert J. Wilke | Ponch |
| J. Williams | Alcutt |
| Chief Tahachee | Pio |
[edit] External links
Man of the West at the Internet Movie Database
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