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The film is one of Cooper's final Westerns. The film premiered on October 1, 1958. At the time of release, the film was largely panned by American critics, but it was praised by Jean-Luc Godard, who, before he became a director, was a film critic. Godard claimed that Man of the West was the best film of the year.
- October 1, 1958
- Walter Mirisch
Entrusted with the lifetime savings of Good Hope's townsfolk to hire a schoolteacher, instead, the reformed outlaw, Link Jones, ends up robbed and abandoned in the vast Texan wilderness, accompanied by his two new friends: the saloon singer, Billie, and the card sharp, Sam Beasley.
With Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell. A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.
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- Anthony Mann
- Not Rated
- Western
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Jun 29, 2017 · Man of the West (1958) Gary Cooper is Link Jones, a quiet townsman from Good Hope on his way to Fort Worth to hire a school teacher with money saved by his friends and neighbors. On the train, he meets two shysters — saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London) and gambler Sam Beasley. When outlaws try to rob the train, all three find themselves ...
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Man of the West presaged by four years two important movies in the genre Lonely are the Brave (1962), a film which personifies, in overt detail, the end of the cowboy's mythical status as the super-heroic traveler through the uncharted west, and Two Rode Together (1961) by John Ford.
- Anthony Mann, Ray Gosnell, Dick Moder
- Gary Cooper
Apr 6, 2015 · Mann’s masterpiece (next to last of his 12 westerns) is Man of the West, based on a terse screenplay by Reginald Rose, author of 12 Angry Men. Jean-Luc Godard called it “quite simply an ...
Dec 12, 2018 · To be a defender of civilization, Link must kill his past family, revealing the moral relativity of the no-longer-unquestionably-heroic man of the West. Man of the West was widely overlooked by American critics, although then-film critic Jean-Luc Godard named it one of 1958’s best films in the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinema.
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