Man of the West
by Anthony Mann
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Actor: Arthur O'Connell, Gary Cooper, Jack Lord, Julie London, Lee J. CobbDirector: Anthony Mann
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Writer: Reginald Rose
Writer: Will C. Brown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of Man of the West
Movie Review: Anthony Mann and Gary Cooper, a great team.
Summary: 4 Stars
In 1950, Anthony Mann became an icon. That year began his love affair with the "western". He made many classics, most notably five films with Jimmy Stewart. However, one of his last films in the genre would wind up being one of his best.
Man Of The West (1958)
Gary Cooper plays a reformed outlaw traveling by train to Fort Worth to hire a school teacher to bring back to the small growing town that he is now a productive member of. While en route, the train is robbed and Cooper finds himself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a saloon singer (the silky voiced Julie London) and a con artist (Arthur O'Connell).
In the middle of nowhere, Cooper leads them to his old gangs hideout. There he finds his old gang, still lead by Coopers former leader and father figure "Doc Tobin" (Lee J. Cobb) Cobb plays Tobin like an even more deranged and criminally insane version of Oliver Twists "Fagin". Again..Mann uses characters with "father figure" issues. Cobb obviously misses and loves Cooper, willing to believe almost any story Cooper tells him in an effort to escape with his friends unharmed. While turning a deaf ear to the other "son" that loves him and is faithful (John Dehner) who, along with the rest of the gang, want Cooper dead.
Mann westerns always have one scene that seems to stand out above the rest, usually a violent one. This movie is no exception. There is a scene where one of the most violent members of the gang (played convincingly by a young Jack Lord) forces Julie London to strip. Later, Cooper and Lord face off and Cooper forces Lord to go through the same humiliation that London is forced to endure. Again, excellently done by Mann and Cooper.
One of my favorite Cooper movies is THE WESTERNER. I love the fun yet doomed relationship between Cooper and Brennan in that. In MAN OF THE WEST, Cooper and Cobbs similar relationship is more twisted and perveted. Cooper has reformed, yet shows signs of missing "the life". He seems to miss and despise Cobb at the same time. During a confrontation with Cobb...Cooper gets to deliver a wonderful line when he tells his demented mentor..
"you've outlived your time and you've outlived your kind....and I'm coming to get you."
Powerful stuff.
This is a wonderful film by Mann that I must highly recommend. The dvd shows the movie in its original aspect and it is a beautiful, technicolor gem.
Summary of Man of the West
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 83 minutes Rating: NrWestern auteur Anthony Mann and aging Western icon Gary Cooper team up in this stark tale of a trio of train passengers stranded in the middle of the desert after a railway holdup. Taking responsibility for his helpless compatriots (Julie London as a sad-eyed prostitute and Arthur O'Connell as a garrulous but cowardly banker), craggy-faced Link Jones (Cooper) takes them into a veritable viper's nest in a desperate gamble. It turns out the respected town elder is a former member of the outlaw gang that robbed them, and he's welcomed back by patriarchal gang leader Dock Tobin (Lee J. Cobb) like the prodigal son. The other bandits are not so forgiving but humor the old man while plotting to unmask Cooper as a devious traitor in a battle of wits and wills. Mann returns to his favorite themes of family and betrayal with a dramatic twist and wrenches up the jagged conflict with the most spare imagery of his career: the trio hiking down an endless horizon of empty track, a lone ramshackle shack on the arid plains, the desolate ghost town where Tobin's planned bank heist turns out to be a pathetic fantasy. Mann's taut direction creates a tension that hangs in the air like the sword of Damocles over the stranded travelers and explodes in cruel, raw violence. Reginald Rose (12 Angry Men) wrote the literate if sometimes overly symbolic script, and John Dehner, Jack Lord, and Royal Dano costar as Tobin's angry gang members. --Sean Axmaker
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