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The Hanging Tree
film by Daves [1959]
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- In Delmer Daves: Westerns
…year he directed the popular The Hanging Tree, with Cooper well cast as a frontier doctor who falls in love with one of his patients (Maria Schell). It was Daves’s last western, and there was some speculation that health problems prevented him from continuing to film in the genre, which…
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- In George C. Scott
…debut in the 1959 western The Hanging Tree and was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his second film role, that of an unctuous assistant prosecutor in Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (1959). So riveting was Scott’s screen presence that many critics thought he stole scenes…
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