The Westerner

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Westerner, 1940.

Robert Osborne introduces The Westerner, 1940.

Drifter Cole (Gary Cooper), just sentenced to hang as a horse thief by the ruthless unofficial judge and barkeep Roy Bean (Walter Brennan), plays the Lily Langtry card, early in the Samuel Goldwyn/William Wyler hit The Westerner, 1940.

Director Williiam Wyler’s opening, with as much action as any part of the picture, with a prologue about Texas range wars and the introduction of Walter Brennan is his supporting-actor Academy Award-winning role, Trevor Burdette the villain/victim, in The Westerner, 1940, starring Gary Cooper.

A drifter (Gary Cooper) accused of horse stealing faces off against the notorious Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan).