The Virginian (1929) | |
| Director(s) | Victor Fleming |
| Producer(s) | B.P. Schulberg, Louis D. Lighton (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Civil War, Remake |
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The Virginian (1929) was a Western - Film Adaptation Film directed by Victor Fleming and produced by Louis D. Lighton and B.P. Schulberg.
SYNOPSIS
Owen Wister's novel was one of the best-known and best-loved Western tales of its day: it was produced twice for the silent screen before this first talking version; it made a star of future silent Western hero William S. Hart in its stage incarnation; and it received a color treatment in the '40s and a long-running TV series adaptation in the '60s. Cooper's first talking role set his heroic image in the public mind as the ranch hand who reluctantly helps lynch his one-time rival in love. On his wedding day, he redeems himself in the eyes of his fiancee when he guns down the man who led his friend to crime.
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Quotes from The Virginian
The Virginian: Since when was I your friend, Trampas?
Molly Stark Wood: I have several little boys just your age.
The Virginian: Do book learnin' do a cowhand any good?
Trampas: Well, I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is runnin' away.
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Facts about The Virginian
Future western movie icon Randolph Scott, from Virginia, was hired as a dialect coach to teach Gary Cooper a Virginia accent, and also has a small non-speaking part in the film.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 2, 1936 with Gary Cooper reprising his film role.
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