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The Hanging Tree is a 1959 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves, based on the novelette The Hanging Tree, written by Dorothy M. Johnson in 1957. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden and George C. Scott, and it is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and 1870s. The story follows a doctor who saves a criminal from a lynch mob, then earns the enmity of several…
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If one is to watch a high‑quality Hollywood western that represents the golden age of the genre, a good choice would be *The Hanging Tree*, a 1959 film directed by Delmer Daves. Based on the eponymous 1957 novelette by Dorothy M. Johnson, the author known for providing literary sources for other prominent westerns like *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* and *A Man Called Horse*, this film is set in 1873 Montana. The…More
