
Westerner, The
Broadcast: September 23, 1940
Starring:
Cecil B DeMille,
Gary Cooper,
Jay Michael,
Lou Merrill,
Walter Brennan,
Donald Curtis,
Gloria Holden,
Melville Ruick,
Harry Humphrey,
Sanford Barnett,
Charlie Forsyth,
George Wells,
Frederick Shields,
Jo Swerling,
Hal K Dawson,
Lux,
Doris Davenport,
Forrest Tucker,
John Deering,
Ted Arthurs,
Brooks Benedict,
Stuart Lake,
Niven Busch
Added: Aug 25 2017
Today's show is about some of the men who dreamed of America, and made the dream come true. It's the story of one man in particular in the rough scramble for land and power - a man with a sense of justice and a way with a gun. Into Texas, the cattlemen came first, and with them Judge Roy Bean, who administered justice his way. Then after them came the homesteaders, who plowed the soil and fenced the fields to bring security to their wives and children. But between the two, war was inevitable...