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The Westerner is a 1940 film directed by William Wyler, and written by Niven Busch, Stuart N. Lake, and Jo Swerling. It stars Gary Cooper as Cole Harden and is often remembered for one of Walter Brennan's best performances, as Judge Roy Bean, which led to him winning his record-setting third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. James Basevi and Stuart N. Lake also received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-white, and the Academy Award for Best Story respectively.

In the film drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lily Langtry, whom the Judge admires. However, tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders that Judge Bean is trying to drive away.

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