Movie
Man of the West
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1958-10-01
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Ashton Productions, Walter Mirisch Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Link Jones
- Julie London as Billie Ellis
- Lee J. Cobb as Dock Tobin
- Arthur O'Connell as Sam Beasley
- Jack Lord as Coaley
- John Dehner as Claude Tobin
- Royal Dano as Trout
- Robert J. Wilke as Ponch
- Joe Dominguez as Mexican Man (uncredited)
- Dick Elliott as Willie (uncredited)
- Frank Ferguson as Crosscut Marshal (uncredited)
- Herman Hack as Train Passenger (uncredited)
Crew
- Anthony Mann - Director
- Reginald Rose - Screenplay
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