Western
The Hanging Tree
From The Prize Novel -- A Picture Of Thundering Power!
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
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Gary Cooper
Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
Maria Schell
Elizabeth Mahler
Karl Malden
Frenchy Plante
George C. Scott
George Grubb
Karl Swenson
Tom Flaunce
Virginia Gregg
Edna Flaunce
John Dierkes
Society Red
King Donovan
Wonder
Directed by
Delmer Daves
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Warner Bros. PicturesReviews
Wuchak
7/1010/10/2024
**_Ahead-of-its-time Western with Gary Cooper, set in the Great Northwest_** In 1873, an embittered doctor (Cooper) sets up practice in a small gold mining town along The Montana Trail. After acquiring a dubious bondservant (Ben Piazza), he tries to help a wounded Swiss immigrant (Maria Schell). But this stirs up the town’s moral police biddies and the jealousy of a lecherous prospector (Karl Malden), not to mention his successful practice threatens the livelihood of a faith healer (George C. Scott). "The Hanging Tree" (1959) was Cooper’s second to last Western. He passed away due to prostate cancer less than three years after it was shot in the summer of ’58. He was 57 during shooting and carries the film with his towering presence, which doesn’t feel like a 50’s Western, but rather
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