The Westerner
7.3
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- Original title
- The Westerner
- Year
- 1940
- Running time
- 100 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
- Music
- Cinematography
- Gregg Toland (B&W)
- Producer
- Genre
- Western
- Synopsis
- "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar to buy drinks for the jury. He notices two big pictures of Lily Langtry behind the bar. Sure, Cole has met the Jersey Lily, whom the hanging judge adores, even has a lock of her hair. Hanging is delayed for two weeks, giving Cole time to get in the middle of a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders and to still be around when Lily Langtry, former mistress of Edward VII who became an international actress, arrives in Texas.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1940: Oscar: Best Supporting Actor (Walter Brennan). 3 Nominations
- Critics' reviews
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"There are agreeable overtones of Mark Twain tall tales in this good-humored, though uneven, version of the paradoxical life of Judge Roy Bean, with Walter Brennan in the part."
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"'The Westerner' might have been a bang-up, dandy film. And that, we are sorry to say, it isn't. The trouble, as indicated, is that the picture has no core."
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"A superior western that mixes fine cinematography, terrific performances, and a script of higher caliber than most to produce a film still fondly remembered today."
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"Gregg Toland's cinematography here makes you yearn for what he might have done on a Ford Western"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 74 My Favorite Westerns (110)
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