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They Came to Cordura is a 1959 American Western film co-written and directed by Robert Rossen and starring Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. It was based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout.
- $4.5 million
- William Goetz
- October 1, 1959
They Came to Cordura: Directed by Robert Rossen. With Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin, Tab Hunter. An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.
- Robert Rossen
- 45
- 3 min
On a mission to Mexico, U.S. Maj. Tom Thorn (Gary Cooper) is branded a coward, while several of his fellow servicemen are praised for showing bravery. Tom is asked to transport the heroes through...
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- Gary Cooper
- Robert Rossen
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In They Came to Cordura (1959), one of his last film appearances and his only movie opposite screen goddess Rita Hayworth, Gary Cooper plays Major Thomas Thorn, an officer branded a coward because of a moment of hesitation during a 1916 battle against Pancho Villa in Mexico.
- Robert Rossen
- Gary Cooper
YouTube Movies & TV. 179M subscribers. Subscribed. 46. A dramatic western set in 1916 Mexico with Gary Cooper as an Army officer accused of cowardice and sent to find five men worthy of a Medal...
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One of the more interesting Westerns of the 1950s, Robert Rossen's "They Came to Cordura" stars Gary Cooper as a US Army officer tasked with leading a small group of men to the frontier town of Cordura. The group is attacked, lose their horses, and begin to turn on one another as they slowly roast in the desert heat.
