Based on the story by Stuart N. Lake. Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone.
Summary:
Walter Brennan's Academy Award winning portrayal of "Judge" Roy Bean, along with the Academy Award-nominated story. Judge Roy Bean is a hard-nosed judge who dispenses his own unique brand of justice. Cole Harden, a stranger accused of stealing horses, attempts to talk himself out of the hangman's noose and the two men end up with a grudging friendship, until Bean's deadly scheming against the homesteaders puts the two on opposite sides.
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