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The Westerner
Western
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy character-driven westerns blending tall-tale humor, courtroom-style maneuvering, and principled resistance to frontier tyranny.
- Tone
- adventurous, darkly comic, tense
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- justice, lawlessness, homesteading, obsession, personal courage
- Setting
- late nineteenth-century frontier, dusty border town and open ranch country
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