Along Came Jones (film)
- Gary Cooper: Melody Jones
- Loretta Young: Cherry de Longpre
- William Demarest: George Fury
- Dan Duryea: Monte Jarrad
- Frank Sully: Avery de Longpre
- Don Costello: Leo Gledhill
- Russell Simpson: Pop de Longpre
- Arthur Loft: Sheriff
- Willard Robertson: Luke Packard
- Ray Teal: Kriendler
- Lane Chandler: Boone
The tramp of Texas is an American Western comedy from director Stuart Heisler from 1945 with Gary Cooper and Loretta Young in the lead roles.
Action
Melody Jones is a harmless cowboy vagrant reflected through life. When he and his friend George Fury comes together in the small town of Ville Payne, his life changes. The residents of the town confused him with the dangerous stagecoach robbers and gunslingers Monte Jarrad and fear Melody. The timid man enjoying his new role as a respected person. When he meets Cherry de Longpre, which is a childhood friend of Monte Jarrad and on the farm keeps hiding the injured Jarrad, he falls in love with the attractive woman. Jarrad is now a competitor to a woman and Melody Jones now has to really muster courage to win the heart of his beloved wife.
Reviews
" A worn from rough comedy Western parody with some approaches that are not carried on by the prominent leading actors. "
" Applied on rough comedy Wild West Adventure [ ... ]. "
" [ ... ] By Coopers sleepy charm braked, yet moving parody of the Texas romance. "
Background
The script by Nunnally Johnson based on the novel by Alan Le May Useless Cowboy
Gary Cooper was produced and starred in one. It was his first Western after five years and at the same time an attempt to parody his hero status in Western film. He worked according to my husband, the cowboy again with director Stuart Heisler.
The film of the RKO came in 1954 in the West German cinemas. In this modern common Gary Cooper was dubbed the voice of Ernst von Klipstein.