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Man of the West( 1958)

TV-MAWestern
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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

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      Gary Cooper

      Link Jones

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      Julie London

      Billie Ellis

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      Lee J. Cobb

      Dock Tobin

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      Arthur O'Connell

      Sam Beasley

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      Jack Lord

      Coaley

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      John Dehner

      Claude Tobin

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      Royal Dano

      Trout

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      Robert J. Wilke

      Ponch

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      Joe Dominguez

      Mexican Man (uncredited)

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      Dick Elliott

      Willie (uncredited)

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      Frank Ferguson

      Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)

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      Herman Hack

      Train Passenger (uncredited)

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      Signe Hack

      Train Passenger (uncredited)

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      Ann Kunde

      Train Passenger (uncredited)

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      Tom London

      Tom (uncredited)

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      Tina Menard

      Juanita (uncredited)

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      Emory Parnell

      Henry (uncredited)

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      Chuck Roberson

      Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)

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      Glen Walters

      Train Passenger (uncredited)

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      Guy Wilkerson

      Conductor (uncredited)

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      Jack Williams

      Alcutt (uncredited)

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    A review by John Chard

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    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...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • train robbery
    • grave digging
    • former outlaw