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Drama: Western

07/01/2003

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A drifter develops an unlikely friendship with a judge in Texas.

Classic western starring Gary Cooper as a drifter who crosses swords with Judge Roy Bean and is drawn into a conflict between settlers and Texas cattlemen.

Drifter Cole Harden befriends the notorious Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Texas. 

Harden is about to be hanged by Bean when he spots the judge's obsession with actress and singer Lily Langtry and spins the judge a tale. 

The men become friends, even though Harden opposes Bean's mission to drive homesteaders off the land to make it suitable for cattle grazing. 

When Harden falls for the daughter of a homesteader, he tries to get the judge to drop his violent ways against them.

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