Man of the West

1958 PG-13 1h 40m

6.6 /10

230

Genre

Western

Plot

Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.

Director

Anthony Mann

Writers

Will C. Brown Reginald Rose

Stars

Gary Cooper Julie London Lee J. Cobb

User Reviews

Geronimo1967

4 Dec 2024

This is a much grittier western than I am used to from Anthony Mann; giving Gary Cooper much more to get his teeth into than the usual, simple, gun-sl...

John Chard

29 May 2017

Another Intelligent Western from Anthony Mann. Link Jones is on his way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher, having left his wife and children be...