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North West Mounted Police (Paramount, 1940)

. Turgid DeMille meller, saved by Coop . . In 1940 Gary Cooper made a fine film, The Westerner, with an outstanding Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean. Directed by William Wyler, it was a classy picture. But the same year Coop also did a much trashier picture, North West Mounted Police.   ‘Westerns’ set in […]