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Man of the West

1958

Anthony Mann

Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell ...

7.2

3,302

Western On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Mann’s masterpiece (...) Jean-Luc Godard called it 'quite simply an admirable lesson in modern cinema'"	POS
United States	Jordan Cronk Slant	"The project marked a spiritual culmination of many interrelated cinematic careers and concerns (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"Mann's direction is immaculate, making Reginald Rose's clearly allegorical, and sometimes forced, screenplay seem even better than it is."	POS
United States	Howard Thompson The New York Times	"This is a small picture, but it does have a cryptic defiance and an aura of snakelike evil that gets one."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] achieves a tragic intensity and a monumental scenic splendor despite some serious handicaps."	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Times	"Mann's terrific final western is a potent examination of one man's battle against his own darker impulses."	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Mann's last western, and his most disturbing foray into the genre (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" "	POS

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