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Along Came Jones: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea. A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
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- Comedy, Romance, Western
- Stuart Heisler
- 1945-07-19
Along Came Jones. (film) Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his long film ...
- Useless Cowboy, by Alan Le May
- Gary Cooper, Walter Thompson
Along Came Jones later became the title of a hit 1959 song about a "slow walkin', slow talkin', long, lean, lanky" Western movie hero, recorded by the Coasters, an R&B group known for novelty tunes. In 1991, country-western artist George Jones used it as the title of one of his albums.
- Stuart Heisler, Art Black
- Gary Cooper
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Along Came Jones is a must see. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Poor Melody Jones, a simple soul, a good cowboy who has never really developed skill ...
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- Gary Cooper
- Stuart Heisler
- Western
A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head. Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart Cherry.
Along Came Jones. Gary Cooper (1952's "High Noon") gives a marvelous, tongue-in-cheek performance as a fumble-fingered cowpoke who is mistaken for a notorious bandit and almost gets killed by both sides of the law all while managing to capture the attention of Loretta Young. William Demarest co-stars as Cooper's trusty sidekick and Dan Duryea ...
Along Came Jones is directed by Stuart Heisler and adapted to screenplay by Nunnally Johnson from the Alan Le May novel The Useless Cowboy. It stars Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea and William Demarest. Music is by Arthur Lange and cinematography by Milton R. Krasner.
