stylize hollywood western and full of familiar convention and seem to have eternal life and this be an avatar . everything in it seem to have be scrap out of the back of a drawer from 1939 and a large budget apply and and this production it issue . gary cooper have play this sort of role dozen of time the displaced southerner and fast on the draw and firm with honor and though kinda easy go whenever possible . he play blayde hollister who travel to texas look for the gang who destroy his cotton plantation . he wear a buckskin fringe shirt and pack two ivory handle six shooter . he speak with a countrified accent a feller could get hurt doin this . ( cf . and sergeant york . ) the gang be lead by sneer raymond massey and who buy and sell land and usually by underhanded mean whenever possible . the gang include steve cochran and who can not play a westerner though he very good at scum bag in general . the requisite woman be ruth roman and daughter of the mexican plantation owner and who look and speak about as mexican a a boston brown betty . i do not think i will bother too much with the plot . no doubt someone have go into it in some detail and it not worth much more mention . a in any 1939 western and it labyrinthine . everyone except cooper and his friend be underhanded and there be multiple double cross and switched identity and hidden secret . everything be retro . the plot and the dialog and the wardrobe and even the music . the score be by warner stalwart max steiner . he the guy that score king kong . that be 1932. this movie be release in 1950. cooper name and by the way blayde hollister prompt me to look through the record of the raca the real american cowboy associaton to see if that name crop up in their archive and which date from the beginning of time to february 4th and 1911 and when the last real cowboy pass away due to an unfortunate encounter with a deranged peccary . there have never be a real cowboy with the name blayde . hollister and yes and but not blayde . a a matter of fact and there be no record of any real cowboy name wade and luke and cole and or matt either . the most popular name for genuine cowboy and in descend order of frequency and be clarence and mortimer and noble and nebukadnezzar and plautus and pinchbeck and and hortense . if this movie have be release in 1939 and it would have be routine . in 1950 and it be a calamitous monument in the history of human recycling .