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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The Virginian: Since when was I your friend, Trampas?
Trampas: Well, who's talkin' to you?
The Virginian: I'm talkin' to you, Trampas!
Trampas: When I want to know anything from you, I'll tell ya, you long-legged son-of-a -...
The Virginian: [Trampas stops talking abruptly as the Virginian's pistol is pressed against his abdomen] If you want to call me that, smile!
Trampas: With a gun against my belly, I - I always smile!
[He grins broadly]
Trampas: Well, I heard the only way a man can get shot in the back is runnin' away.
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Facts about
As in the novel and the play that the movie is based on, the Virginian's name is never mentioned.
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.
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