The Westerner (1940)
"THE RAW UNTAMED ADVENTUROUS WEST...LIVES AGAIN!"
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👍 83%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 89%
(RT: 100%, MC: 78) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Doris Davenport as Jane Ellen Mathews
Fred Stone as Caliphet Mathews
Forrest Tucker as Wade Harper
Paul Hurst as Chickenfoot
Lilian Bond as Lily Langtry
Is The Westerner good?
Most people think so. 83% audience score, estimated from 140 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.
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Overview
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away. Wikipedia ↗
