Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

• DirectorWilliam Wyler
• Release18 September 1940
• GenreWestern
• Duration1h 40m
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  7.041
  122 reviews
• Productions

  Samuel Goldwyn Productions