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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Trampas: [laughs] Hard work but easy pickin's.
Trampas: This world isn't big enough for the both of us!
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]
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The original play by Owen Wister and Kirk La Shelle opened in New York on 5 January 1904.
As in the novel and the play that the movie is based on, the Virginian's name is never mentioned.
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