The Hanging Tree

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NR,1hr 48min

Genres:

Drama,Action,Western

Released:

January 1, 1959

Director:

Delmer Daves

Distributor:

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution

Starring:

Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden ... More

Synopsis: Gary Cooper plays a frontier doctor with a checkered past who works in a rowdy Montana mining camp. Cooper falls in love with Maria Schell, a young Swiss girl whom he has treated for shock after she was the victim of a holdup. He finances Schell's grubstake, which makes her rich. When Schell's unscrupulous partner Karl Malden tries to have his way with the girl, Cooper kills Malden. Sentenced to an immediate hanging, Cooper is saved when Schell offers to give the town her valuable mine. A surprise ... Full Synopsis

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	Richard Gilliam, AMG Review The Hanging Tree is one of three outstanding Westerns adapted from the stories of Dorothy Johnson. As in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence and A Man Called Horse, Johnson is more interested in reexamining the clichés of the West than in telling a conventional story. Not fully appreciated by critics at the time of its release, Hanging Tree features excellent, sure-handed direction from Delmer Daves, ... Read Review