The Lusty Men (1952)

Directed by

Robert Parrish, Nicholas Ray

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 96 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired rodeo champion takes a young couple under his wing and teaches the husband how to be a rodeo rider. The success starts to pull the couple apart, and the older man must confront his own painful past.

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What happens

The Lusty Men is a 1952 contemporary Western film directed by Nicholas Ray, and starring Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy and Arthur Hunnicutt. The screenplay was written by David Dortort and Horace McCoy based on the 1946 Life magazine article "King of the Cowboys" by Claude Stanush. The film's cinematographer was Lee Garmes and its score was composed by Roy Webb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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