The Lusty Men (This Man is Mine)

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Directed by

Robert Parrish

Nicholas Ray

Starring (View all)

Susan Hayward
Louise Merritt

Robert Mitchum
Jeff McCloud

Arthur Kennedy
Wes Merritt

Arthur Hunnicutt
Booker Davis

Frank Faylen
Al Dawson

Walter Coy
Buster Burgess

Carol Nugent
Rusty Davis

Maria Hart
Rosemary Maddox

Written by (View all)

Horace McCoy

David Dortort

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2 years, 12 months ago at Apr 21 3:29

fernando

(OK) Ray anticipates the spirit of Peckinpah's "Junior Bonner". Afeter the great secuence/idea of Mitchum crawling under his house to find some souvenirs from childhood; begins another film with a trio and rodeo agonic independence background.

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Description: When he sustains a rodeo injury, star rider Jeff McCloud returns to his hometown after many years of absence. He signs on as a hired hand with a local ranch, where he befriends fellow ranch hand Wes and his wife Louise. Wes has big dreams of owning his own little farm, and rodeo winnings could help finance it. Wes convinces Jeff to coach him in the rodeo ways, but Louise has her doubts. She doesn't want her man to end up a broken down rodeo bum like Jeff McCloud. Despite Louise's concern, the threesome hit the road in their Woody, chucking a secure present for an unknown future. Will they find success or sorrow? This picture fea ... (more)

Release date: 24 October 1952

Tags: Western (3), Drama (2), Action (2), 1950s (2), Usa (1), 1952 (1), Cult Director (1), HQ (1), Injury (1), Rodeo (1), 50's (1), Cult Film (1), Sort (1), Rodeo Cowboy (1)

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“(OK) Ray anticipates the spirit of Peckinpah's "Junior Bonner". Afeter the great secuence/idea of Mitchum crawling under his house to find some souvenirs from childhood; begins another film with a trio and rodeo agonic independence background.” read more

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"A mournful modern-day ode to a vanishing way of life, The Lusty Men pits homeward-looking, aging rodeo star Jeff McCloud (Robert Mitchum) against upstart Wes Merritt (Arthur Kennedy), positioning Wes’s wife, Louise (Susan Hayward), as the upright angle in this acute triangle. Stylistically, the film juxtaposes patently false studio sets and process photography—even beyond the usual exigencies necessitated by studio procedures—with a gritty verisimilitude derived from documentary-style loca"