Story Line
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.
“IN THE ROLE THAT FITS HIM LIKE A GUN FITS A HOLSTER! GARY COOPER as the MAN OF THE WEST”
Top Cast
Gary Cooper
Link Jones
Julie London
Billie Ellis
Lee J. Cobb
Dock Tobin
Arthur O'Connell
Sam Beasley
Jack Lord
Coaley
John Dehner
Claude Tobin
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Rating
6.6/ 10
Release Date
1958-10-01
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Western
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User Reviews (2)
John Chard
8/10
•5/29/2017Another Intelligent Western from Anthony Mann.
Link Jones is on his way to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher, having left his wife and children behind, Link appears to be the epitome of the simple honest man. However, the train he is on is robbed...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•12/4/2024This is a much grittier western than I am used to from Anthony Mann; giving Gary Cooper much more to get his teeth into than the usual, simple, gun-slinging fayre. He plays a reformed outlaw who is caught up in a train ambush. "Link" escapes with two...