![]() Gary Cooper is frankly well in the role that fits him like a gun fits a holster. ![]() Jean-Luc Godard, a film critic before he became a director, raved about the film saying it was the best film of that year because of his recommendation, the film has been reevaluated and is now considered a classic western. In spite of its violence that influenced in Spaghetti Western, ¨Man of the West¨ turns out to be an essential and indispensable Western for hardcore aficionados. This excellent Western deserves another look at 1958, nowadays is better considered then the 50s when was dismissed. Magnificent Western plenty of thrills, shootouts, violence, gorgeous landscapes and results to be pretty entertaining. Cooper is forced to rejoin his ex-colleague (Lee J Cobb) and ex-boss to save himself and other innocent people from the band's (Jack Lord, Robert J Wilke, Royal Dano) mistreatment. Gary Cooper is the Man of the West, a reformed outlaw called Link Jones (Gary Cooper, he bravely did his own horse-riding scenes despite physical pain from a car accident years earlier though) becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers (Julie London, Arthur O'Connell). Brilliant and taut Western with wonderful use of locations and top-of-the-range cast. Tense, violent ,epic Western in which Gary Cooper, Lee J Cobb and Julie London stand out. ![]()
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