Movies starring Gary Cooper

A Farewell to Arms (1932)

80 mins Drama, Romance, War

Wow, considering this is a movie from 1932 a lot of people have a lot to say on it. From referencing this being the first Ernest Hemmingway novel to be adapted into a movie to the fact it comes before the Hays Code and subjec...

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

115 mins Comedy, Romance

Over time some of cinema's most popular movies have come at the hands of director Frank Capra. He gave us "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and of course "It's a Wonderful Life" amongst others. He also gave us "Mr. Deeds Goes to...

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)

91 mins Comedy, Drama, Romance

Movie Review - The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Merle Oberon stars as Mary, the daughter of a politically ambitious father who doesn't want scandal. Trouble is that she ends up not only marrying a cowboy but lies to the cowboy ...

North West Mounted Police (1940)

126 mins Action , Adventure , Drama

There is no denying that Cecil B. DeMille made some epic movies and what he did with colour when many movies were still in black & white is astonishing. But sometimes DeMille tried too hard or to be more precise he tried to t...

The Westerner (1940)

100 mins Drama, Romance, Western

Gary Cooper waking up in bed next to Walter Brennan is not the sort of thing you expect from a 1940's western but it is one of the many memorable scenes in "The Westerner". It is a wondefully comical scene from hidden card up...

Ball of Fire (1941)

111 mins Comedy, Romance

Movie Review - Ball of Fire (1941) Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, Dana Andrews...

The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

128 mins Biography, Drama, Sport

I think the closest I have ever got to a baseball game, other than all the baseball movies I have watched, is briefly seeing a baseball diamond at one of the American Air Force bases in the UK when I was very young. As such w...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

170 mins Adventure , Drama, Romance

Having watched "For Whom the Bell Tolls" it made me wish two things; one that I had been born earlier and two that I had read Ernest Hemingway's novel on which it is based. Why? Well for the simple reason that maybe I would b...

Along Came Jones (1945)

88 mins Comedy, Romance, Western

Along Came Jones (1945) Gary Cooper stars as a laid back cowboy who finds himself mistaken for an outlaw, whilst be used by the outlaw's gal, Cherry (Loretta Young)...

Cloak And Dagger (1946)

106 mins Adventure , Romance, Thriller

"Cloak and Dagger" is a curious movie because it was one of the first movies to mention the OSS and what they did during the 2nd World War yet it almost feels routine, take out the fact it actually includes the name OSS and i...

Dallas (1950)

94 mins Western

I know it's a very obvious way to start this review but the 1950 movie called "Dallas" has very little in common with the soap opera of the same name. There are no Ewings, no oil empire and no dream sequence in the shower and...

Distant Drums (1951)

101 mins Action , Western

Starring Gary Cooper, Richard Webb and Mari Aldon "Distant Drums" tells the story of a group of cavalry who having rescued hostages from a group of Seminole Indians try and make it to safety through the dangerous Florida Ever...

Springfield Rifle (1952)

93 mins War, Western

I wouldn't say that "Springfield Rifle" is the best 50s western I have ever watched, I won't way that it wowed me with one great action scene after another, although it occasionally gets close and I won't say that the perform...

High Noon (1952)

85 mins Western

John Wayne is reported to say that "High Noon" was "un-American" as it was an allegory about people in Hollywood failing to make a stand against the House of Un-American Activities Committee. And whilst for those who are awar...

Blowing Wild (1953)

90 mins Action , Drama

Movie Review "Blowing Wild" � Gary Cooper stars as Jeff who along with friend Dutch (Ward Bond) are desperate for money. Their desperation leads to Jeff working for Paco (Anthony Quinn) who's wife Marina (Barbara Stanwyck) is...

Vera Cruz (1954)

94 mins Western

With a cast lead by Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster there is plenty which is great about 50s western "Vera Cruz" and by no means is it a run of the mill western. The basic storyline for a start which sees a hero and anti-hero ...

Man of the West (1958)

100 mins Western

Some of my favourite westerns come from director Anthony Mann especially those he made with James Stewart and the simple reason is that Mann managed to craft westerns which were entertaining as a piece of genre but also had d...

They Came to Cordura (1959)

123 mins Adventure , Drama

Big name stars, big open spaces, soldiers doing battle these are all ingredients for an epic movie and they are ingredients which "They Came to Cordura" possesses yet it lacks something as rather than being epic it is ultimat...

The Hanging Tree (1959)

107 mins Drama, Romance, Western

I watched "The Hanging Tree" for the first time around 2010 and have watched it a couple of times since. Strangely I don't think that "The Hanging Tree" is a great western or at least not a great western for those just lookin...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Gary Cooper as one of the principle cast members.