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Man of the West

Man of the West

Jun 20, 1958
100 min
Western
6.6/ 10
224 votes

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.

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6.6/10
224 votes
IMDB
7.0/10
10,343 votes
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95%
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"IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST"

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Ashton ProductionsUnited Artists

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