The Westerner

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

• William WylerDirector
• Jo SwerlingScreenplay
• Niven BuschScreenplay
• Dimitri TiomkinOriginal Music Composer

• Gary CooperCole Harden
• Walter BrennanJudge Roy Bean
• Doris DavenportJane Ellen Mathews
• Fred StoneCaliphet Mathews
• Forrest TuckerWade Harper
• Paul HurstChickenfoot
• Chill WillsSoutheast
• Lilian BondLily Langtry
• Dana AndrewsHod Johnson
• Charles HaltonMort Borrow
• Trevor BardetteShad Wilkins
• Tom TylerKing Evans