Retiring Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) insists on defending his town from a gang of hooligans who are due on the noon train -- but he faces the task alone as the cowardly townspeople flee like rats from a sinking ship. Director Fred Zinnemann creates an incredibly tense Western (rightly... Read More

In a career-defining performance that earned him his first Academy Award, Gary Cooper stars as Alvin York, a poor Appalachian pacifist drafted into World War I. Placed in an impossible position, York single-handedly captures an entire enemy platoon and becomes a national hero. This World War II-era... Read More

Gary Cooper stoically portrays uncompromising architect Howard Roark, a man obedient solely to his own individuality and unfettered expression. Adapted from Ayn Rand's best-selling philosophical allegory, the film depicts Roark's life as a series of trials in which he must defend his beliefs and... Read More

Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire play farmers Jess and Eliza Birdwell, devoted Quaker parents living in Indiana during the height of the Civil War. The Birdwells's religion opposes violence and war, but as Confederate forces march closer -- looting and burning as they go -- the community prepares a... Read More

Gary Cooper was a man of few words, but he made 'em all count. In a film that ranks alongside High Noon for drama and scope, Cooper plays a tight-lipped drifter who runs afoul of Judge Roy Bean (Walter Brennan). Cooper will have to keep his gunpowder dry if he expects to sidestep the... Read More