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    Hanging Tree, The (1959)

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    Dr Joe Frail (Gary Cooper in his last western film), trying to forget an unhappy past, drifts from town to town until in the mid-1870s he sets up practice in Skull Creek, a wild Montana gold mining camp.

    Grubb (George C. Scott), the local preacher and phoney faith-healer, takes exception to the loss of business but finds Frail can use a gun as well as a scalpel.

    But the worthy doctor hits trouble when he saves the life of a boy called Rune (Ben Piazza) who has stolen gold – a crime which could lead to death under “the hanging tree”.

    Dr Joseph ‘Doc’ Frail
    Gary Cooper
    Elizabeth Mahler
    Maria Schell
    Frenchy Plante
    Karl Malden
    George Grubb
    George C. Scott
    Tom Flaunce
    Karl Swenson
    Edna Flaunce
    Virginia Gregg
    Society Red
    John Dierkes
    Wonder
    King Donovan
    Rune
    Ben Piazza

    Director
    Delmer Daves

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