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The Virginian
"You don't think I want to do this Molly? But you won't ask me to run away - "
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
- Original title
- The Virginian
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Nervaaz
Aug 18, 2026 · via TMDB
Monumental Western That Defined the Genre I've read reviews on other sites that complain this movie is full of cliches. This movie invented those cliches, that hundreds of movies have copied since. What is a standard trope in 2026 was revolutionary in 1929. The silent cowboy, the boastful angry cattle rustler, the innocent girl from back east, the funny sidekick, the hanging of a friend and the showdown at the end of the movie, had never been done before in this way. Gary Cooper, as The Virginian, became the model which hundreds of leading men in westerns strove to copy. Walter Huston portrays the ultimate western bad guy, that you could almost see him reflected by actors such as Lee Van Cleef, Harry Woods, Brian Donlevy and Richard Widmark amongst others. I won't even list the eastern ladies who travelled out west to teach school, inherit a ranch, become a nurse, or some other function, only to fall in love with the silent brave cowboy. Plus, the showdown at the end of a movie became so common that it is impossible to list them all. So the small minded will say this movie is full of old standard tropes. But those who can look back with an open mind will see that this movie started it all, and for 1929, did it magnificently.
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Gary Cooper
The Virginian
Walter Huston
Trampas
Richard Arlen
Steven 'Steve'
Mary Brian
Molly Stark Wood
Helen Ware
Mrs. 'Ma' Taylor
Chester Conklin
Uncle 'Pa' Hughey
Eugene Pallette
'Honey' Wiggin
Victor Potel
Nebrasky
E.H. Calvert
Judge Henry
Edward Cronjager
Director of Photography
Henry Hathaway
Assistant Director
Victor Fleming
Director
Louis D. Lighton
Producer
Grover Jones
Adaptation
Howard Estabrook
Screenplay
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Nov 9, 1929
