finished watching Man of the West 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
An economically-told story with lots of moral greyness in its broad strokes that I don't normally associate with Westerns at the time it was made. Looking forward to checking out more Anthony Mann later on.
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Man of the West
other title:
西部人
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盖世英雄
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Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.