The Man from Laramie
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Man of the West Released Oct 1, 1958 1h 40m Western List 95% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 76% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Ex-outlaw Link Jones (Gary Cooper) is aboard a train when it is robbed...
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Man of the West is Anthony Mann's shining conceptual project...
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In occupied Germany in 1949, American military officer...
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Apr 6, 2015 · Man of the West was Cooper’s penultimate western and arguably his greatest performance, to which he brought a characteristic blend of decency, resolution and self-doubt. It was his only...
- 3 min
- Philip French
Featured review. 6/10. History of Violence. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after their train is robbed, a former outlaw, a schoolteacher and a gambler take refuge with the gang that the former outlaw once belonged to in this dark western drama.
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- Anthony Mann
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- Western
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Godard claimed that Man of the West was the best film of the year. Decades after the film's release, it has gained a cult following and greater acclaim, with film historian Philip French claiming the film to be Anthony Mann's masterpiece, containing Cooper's finest performance.
- October 1, 1958
- Walter Mirisch
His masterpiece is Man of the West, a revolutionary 1958 film that establishes the dramatic turns of Western filmmaking over twenty or more successive years. Within this piercing tale of self-identity, the rugged persona of The Old West reaches brutal extremes and sheds away the illusory idealism established in Hollywood’s traditional Western ...
77 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. Tough gritty western that influenced the Spaghetti Western. ChungMo 15 May 2005. There is a bit wrong with this film. Gary Cooper's age versus Lee Cobb's. The coincidental stranding of Julie London and Arthur O'Conell after the train robbery. The abrupt ending.
