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MOVIE

Man of the West

IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST

★ 6.6 1958 100 min Western

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.

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Man of the West in its release era

Released in 1958, Man of the West sits inside the 1950s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.

Release
1958-10-01
TMDB score
6.6/10
Original language
EN
Status
Released
Production
United States of America
Studio
Ashton Productions, Walter Mirisch Productions
Topicstrain robberygrave diggingformer outlawold ganggang of outlawsreformed criminal

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