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The Hanging Tree is a 1959 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves, based on the novelette The Hanging Tree, written by Dorothy M. Johnson in 1957. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden and George C. Scott, and it is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and 1870s.
With Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott. Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
A doctor (Gary Cooper) saves a man from hanging then tries to run his life in. Dr. Joseph Frail, a drifter who arrives in the mining town of Skull Creek, Montana and quickly sets up a practice in the rough and tumble community, is a man of mystery.
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In 1873, on the Gold Trail, Montana, the mysterious and controlling Dr. Joseph Frail arrives in the small town of Skull Creek with miners in a gold rush. Dr. Frail buys a cabin on the top of a hill and he sees the smalltime thief Rune wounded and chased by a mob that wants to hang him. Dr. Frail helps and heals Rune; but in return, he demands th...
While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune (Ben Piazza) from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he...
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Apr 6, 2024 · Gary Cooper is Doc Joe Frall, a physician haunted by his past. He rides into a Montana boom town and winds up taking two misfits of sorts under his wings. The first is a young man named Rune (Ben Piazza), who’s being chased for stealing from a sluice box and has a shoulder wound.
