Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
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The Hanging Tree is a 1959 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves, based on the novelette The Hanging Tree, written by Dorothy M. Johnson in 1957. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden and George C. Scott, and it is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and 1870s.
With Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden, George C. Scott. Unusual western about a doctor with a dark past, whose life is complicated and ultimately redeemed by a young thief, and a pretty Swiss immigrant whom he nurses back to health.
- (4.8K)
- Western
- Delmer Daves, Karl Malden, Vincent Sherman
- 1959-02-20
While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor.
- Delmer Daves
- 107 min
- 8
Hanging Tree, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) More Than Most Of Us See After weeks of treatment, Montana frontier physician “Doc” Frail (Gary Cooper) removes bandages from the eyes of European immigrant Elizabeth (Maria Schell), injured in a spectacular stagecoach wreck, his assistant Rune (Ben Piazza) standing by, in Delmer Daves’ The Hanging ...
- Delmer Daves
- Gary Cooper
Aug 11, 2020 · The Hanging Tree is not a movie listed among the greatest 20th century Westerns, but I think it deserves reconsideration as such. This video reviews and briefly analyzes the movie,...
- 7 min
- 12.2K
- Learning about Movies
While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune (Ben Piazza) from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he...
- (7)
- Western
A search party is formed, and Frenchy finds the sole survivor, Swiss immigrant Elizabeth Mahler ( Maria Schell ), daughter of the slain male passenger. Crippled by burns, blindness and dehydration, Elizabeth is moved into a house next to the doctor's house to recover.
