Western
The Virginian
"You don't think I want to do this Molly? But you won't ask me to run away - "
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
Top Cast
Gary Cooper
The Virginian
Walter Huston
Trampas
Richard Arlen
Steven 'Steve'
Mary Brian
Molly Stark Wood
Helen Ware
Mrs. 'Ma' Taylor
Chester Conklin
Uncle 'Pa' Hughey
Eugene Pallette
'Honey' Wiggin
Victor Potel
Nebrasky
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Production
Paramount PicturesReviews
Nervaaz
10/108/18/2026
Monumental Western That Defined the Genre I've read reviews on other sites that complain this movie is full of cliches. This movie invented those cliches, that hundreds of movies have copied since. What is a standard trope in 2026 was revolutionary in 1929. The silent cowboy, the boastful angry cattle rustler, the innocent girl from back east, the funny sidekick, the hanging of a friend and the showdown at the end of the movie, had never been done before in this way. Gary Cooper, as The Virginian, became the model which hundreds of leading men in westerns strove to copy. Walter Huston portrays the ultimate western bad guy, that you could almost see him reflected by actors such as Lee Van Cleef, Harry Woods, Brian Donlevy and Richard Widmark amongst others. I won't even list the eas
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