Man of the West( 1958)

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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.

Top Billed 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
Joe Dominguez
Mexican Man (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
Willie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Signe Hack
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Ann Kunde
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Tom London
Tom (uncredited)
Tina Menard
Juanita (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Henry (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)
Glen Walters
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Conductor (uncredited)
Jack Williams
Alcutt (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon 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 men as complicated as they are conflicted? I always find with Mann's Westerns that a sense of doom h...