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Thursday, June 21, 2018

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     Man of the West
1958  NR  WESTERN  1h 40min
CAST— Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O’Connell, Jack Lord, John Dehner, Royal Dano
MUSIC— Leigh Harline  DIRECTOR— Anthony Mann  BASED ON— The Border Jumpers (novel), by Will C. Brown

     Engaging Western yarn featuring Gary Cooper in yet another understated performance. Cooper plays a reformed outlaw commissioned by his home town to hire a school teacher. Before he knows it he’s sucked into a Wild West adventure. His train is robbed, his money is stolen and he’s left behind with two other passengers. Off they trek to an abandoned homestead that used to be a hideout for his gang. It turns out that the house isn’t so abandoned after all; a notorious outlaw (his own uncle, played by a boisterous Lee J. Cobb) has a new gang of robbers (the same guys that robbed Cooper’s train) and is hiding out at their old spot. Soon there comes a desperate struggle for survival as Cooper claims that he’s still the killer he used to be. Uncle soon hatches a plan to relieve a town of its monetary assets. Cooper must take advantage of the situation if he is to make it through this alive. A fine cast, a superior premise and an exciting finale offer a reminder as to how a Western should be delivered.
OUR RATING— ***
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