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The pinnacle in the brilliant career of director Anthony Mann, Man of the West has earned a reputation as one of the finest westerns — and one of the finest films, full stop — produced in the late studio era.Ex-outlaw Link Jones (Gary Cooper) boards a train to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his town when he’s knocked unconscious and robbed — by a gang of outlaws associated with his own uncle (Lee J. Cobb) whom he abandoned years earlier in his bid to go straight. Soon after, and in order to protect the life of the woman he’d earmarked for schoolteacher, saloon singer Billie Ellis (Julie London), Link rejoins the gang for one last hold-up…Jean-Luc Godard wrote of Man of the West: “I have seen nothing so completely new since — why not? — Griffith… With Anthony Mann, one rediscovers the western , as one discovers arithmetic in an elementary maths class. Which is to say that Man of the West is the most intelligent of films, and at the same time the most simple.” The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Man of the West in a special Dual Format edition that presents the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.Reviews:Philip French’s Classic DVD of the week – The Observer
Original Release
09/30/1958
US Release
10/01/1958
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Cooper | Link Jones |
Julie London | Billie Ellis |
Lee J. Cobb | Dock Tobin |
Arthur O'Connell | Sam Beasley |
Jack Lord | Coaley |
John Dehner | Claude / Claude Tobin |
Royal Dano | Trout |
Robert J. Wilke | Ponch |
Joe Dominguez | Mexican Man |
Dick Elliott | Willie |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gary Cooper | Link Jones |
Julie London | Billie Ellis |
Lee J. Cobb | Dock Tobin |
Arthur O'Connell | Sam Beasley |
Jack Lord | Coaley |
John Dehner | Claude / Claude Tobin |
Royal Dano | Trout |
Robert J. Wilke | Ponch |
Joe Dominguez | Mexican Man |
Dick Elliott | Willie |
Frank Ferguson | Crosscut Marshal |
Herman Hack | Train Passenger |
Signe Hack | Train Passenger |
Anne Kunde | Train Passenger |
Tom London | Tom |
Tina Menard | Juanita |
Emory Parnell | Henry |
Chuck Roberson | Rifleman-Guard on Train |
Glen Walters | Train Passenger |
Guy Wilkerson | Train Conductor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Walter Mirisch | Producer |