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Man of the West
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.
1958 · Directed by Anthony Mann · 100 min · Western · 11 frames
Tagline
IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST
Crew
- Screenplay: Reginald Rose
- Cinematography: Ernest Haller
- Music: Leigh Harline
- Produced by: Walter Mirisch
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Link Jones
- Julie London as Billie Ellis
- Lee J. Cobb as Dock Tobin
- Arthur O'Connell as Sam Beasley
- Jack Lord as Coaley
- John Dehner as Claude Tobin
- Royal Dano as Trout
- Robert J. Wilke as Ponch
- Joe Dominguez as Mexican Man (uncredited)
- Dick Elliott as Willie (uncredited)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Ashton Productions, Walter Mirisch Productions
- Themes: train robbery, grave digging, former outlaw, old gang, gang of outlaws, reformed criminal
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