The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

1959 | 1h 46m | Western, Drama | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

A doctor turns to violence after a tragedy in his own life. But he learns to love again while trying to save a young woman's life in a lawless Montana mining town.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Delmer Daves

CAST

Gary Cooper

Maria Schell

Karl Malden

George C. Scott

Ben Piazza

PRODUCERS

Martin Jurow

Richard Shepherd

WRITERS

Wendell Mayes

Halsted Welles

Dorothy M. Johnson

Related Videos

04:00
Hanging Tree, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Maybe Forever
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Vagrant Rune (Ben Piazza), seen stealing from a gold sluice in the new Montana mining town of Skull Creek, and shot by pursuing miners, meets Doc (Gary Cooper), who is new in town and whose background is so far unknown, early in Delmer Daves The Hanging Tree, 1959.
03:11
Hanging Tree, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) More Than Most Of Us See
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After weeks of treatment, Montana frontier physician Doc Frail (Gary Cooper) removes bandages from the eyes of European immigrant Elizabeth (Maria Schell), injured in a spectacular stagecoach wreck, his assistant Rune (Ben Piazza) standing by, in Delmer Daves The Hanging Tree, 1959.
02:47
Hanging Tree, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Got Me A Carbuncle
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Doc Frail (Gary Cooper) has just set up shop in mining town Skull Creek, Montana, visited by drunken Grubb (George C. Scott) and chatty Frenchy (Karl Malden), who seem to know him from earlier days, recovering patient Rune (Ben Piazza) now his assistant, in The Hanging Tree, 1959.
02:47
Hanging Tree, The - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A doctor (Gary Cooper) saves a man from hanging then tries to run his life in The Hanging Tree (1959).

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