The Westerner
Release Date: 1940-09-18
Rating : 7.059/10
Duration : 100 minutes
Genres : Western
Director : William Wyler
Writer : Jo Swerling, Niven Busch
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Cast
Gary Cooper
Walter Brennan
Doris Davenport
Fred Stone
Forrest Tucker
Paul Hurst