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The Westerner

THE RAW UNTAMED ADVENTUROUS WEST...LIVES AGAIN!

1940 · NR · 1h 40m

Directed by William Wyler

7.1

TMDB audience score
141 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • 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

  • C.E. Anderson
    Hezekiah Willever (uncredited)

  • Stanley Andrews
    Sheriff (uncredited)

  • Arthur Aylesworth
    Mr. Dixon - Homesteader (uncredited)

  • Bill Beauman
    Man Getting Haircut (uncredited)

  • Hank Bell
    Deputy (uncredited)