The Westerner
1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
"Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar to buy drinks for the jury. He notices two big pictures of Lily Langtry behind the bar. Sure, Cole has met the Jersey Lily, whom the hanging judge adores, even has a lock of her hair. Hanging is delayed for two weeks, giving Cole time to get in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders and to still be around when Lily Langtry, former mistress of Edward VII who became an international actress, arrives in Texas.
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone · Forrest Tucker · Paul Hurst · Chill Wills · Lilian Bond · Dana Andrews · Charles Halton · Trevor Bardette · Tom Tyler · Lucien Littlefield · C.E. Anderson · Stanley Andrews · Arthur Aylesworth · Bill Beauman · Hank Bell · Gertrude Bennett · Danny Borzage · Charles Coleman · Heinie Conklin · Philip Connor · Buck Connors · Frank Cordell · Jim Corey · Joe De La Cruz · Helen Foster · William Gillis · Roger Gray · Aleth Hansen · Lew Kelly · Connie Leon · Art Mix · Corbet Morris · Buck Moulton · Jack Pennick · Julian Rivero · Henry Roquemore · Annabelle Rousseau · Miriam Sherwin · William Steele · Phil Tead · Lupita Tovar · Blackjack Ward · Ted Wells
Soundtrack Dimitri Tiomkin
Screenplay Jo Swerling · Niven Busch · Stuart N. Lake
Cinematography Gregg Toland
Original title The Westerner
7.4
2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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