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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.

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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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Trampas: Well, I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is runnin' away.


Molly Stark Wood: I have several little boys just your age.
The Virginian: Do book learnin' do a cowhand any good?


Trampas: You're liable to talk yourself into a heap of trouble, my friend.
The Virginian: Since when was I your friend, Trampas?


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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 2, 1936 with Gary Cooper reprising his film role.
As in the novel and the play that the movie is based on, the Virginian's name is never mentioned.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
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