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Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May.
Along Came Jones: Directed by Stuart Heisler. With Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea. A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
Along Came Jones (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Unsmiling Unaware that he's been mistaken for a feared gunman, Melody (Gary Cooper, also the producer) explains to sidekick George (William Demarest) how he commands respect in this new town, Erville Anderson the bartender, early in Along Came Jones, 1945.
John McCarten New Yorker Along Came Jones includes enough of the uproar that Hollywood has always associated with sleepy Western towns to keep the customers reasonably diverted.
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Riding into Payneville, easy-going cowboy Melody Jones is mistaken by the townsfolk for notorious gunman Monte Jarrad. The real Jarrad is hiding out wounded on the ranch of childhood sweetheart Cherry.
Along Came Jones is directed by Stuart Heisler and adapted to screenplay by Nunnally Johnson from the Alan Le May novel The Useless Cowboy. It stars Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea and William Demarest.
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