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Released
1940 · FILM

The Westerner

THE RAW UNTAMED ADVENTUROUS WEST...LIVES AGAIN!

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
DramaWestern
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Cole Harden, a drifter, is accused of horse theft and sentenced to hang by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean. Harden avoids the punishment by claiming to be a friend of stage actress Lillie Langtry, a woman the judge is infatuated with, despite having never met her. The situation escalates when Harden intervenes to defend a group of struggling homesteaders whom Judge Bean is attempting to evict.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel MandellShot by Gregg TolandScored by Dimitri Tiomkin

Also known as

  • Der Westernerde
  • In die Falle gelocktde
  • Le Cavalier du désertfr
  • L'uomo del Westit

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