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Actors: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord Director: Anthony Mann Rating: Features: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 99 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Theatrical Release Date: 1958 Studio: United Artists
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Gary Cooper in his last great role portrays a former outlaw whose past returns to haunt him when he is forced by his old gang to participate in a train robbery. Julie London and Lee J. Cobb co-star.System Requirements:Running Time: 83 minutes Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating: NR UPC: 883904107095 Manufacturer No: M110709
Western auteur Anthony Mann and aging Western icon Gary Cooper team up in this stark tale of a trio of train passengers stranded in the middle of the desert after a railway holdup. Taking responsibility for his helpless compatriots Julie London as a sad-eyed prostitute and Arthur O'Connell as a garrulous but cowardly banker, craggy-faced Link Jones Cooper takes them into a veritable viper's nest in a desperate gamble. It turns out the respected town elder is a former member of the outlaw gang that robbed them, and he's welcomed back by patriarchal gang leader Dock Tobin Lee J. Cobb like the prodigal son. The other bandits are not so forgiving but humor the old man while plotting to unmask Cooper as a devious traitor in a battle of wits and wills. Mann returns to his favorite themes of family and betrayal with a dramatic twist and wrenches up the jagged conflict with the most spare imagery of his career: the trio hiking down an endless horizon of empty track, a lone ramshackle shack on the arid plains, the desolate ghost town where Tobin's planned bank heist turns out to be a pathetic fantasy. Mann's taut direction creates a tension that hangs in the air like the sword of Damocles over the stranded travelers and explodes in cruel, raw violence. Reginald Rose 12 Angry Men wrote the literate if sometimes overly symbolic script, and John Dehner, Jack Lord, and Royal Dano costar as Tobin's angry gang members. --Sean Axmaker
