The Westerner

Name: The Westerner
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Released: September 20, 1940
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Charles Halton, Chill Wills, Dana Andrews, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker

1940

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United Artists | Release Date: September 20, 1940 | Passed

Starring: Charles Halton, Chill Wills, Dana Andrews, Doris Davenport, Forrest Tucker, Fred Stone, Gary Cooper, Lilian Bond, Paul Hurst, Walter Brennan

Summary: Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

Director: William Wyler

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Western

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 100 min

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Michael Wilmington

Gregg Toland's cinematography here makes you yearn for what he might have done on a Ford Western. [17 Oct 1996, p.11]

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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It's the cattlemen vs homesteaders plot, present in all its particulars, but refracted through the star personae of Cooper and Brennan. Read full review

Pauline Kael

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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Supplied with a particularly meaty role, of which he takes fullest advantage, Brennan turns in a socko job that does much to hold together a not too impressive script. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

If some one could just have decided who should carry the ball, instead of letting it pass from one to the other, 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. Read full review

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