Along Came Jones

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Along Came Jones

1945

1h 30m

Western

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Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) is a laid-back cowboy who gets lost on the trail and ends up in the small town of Payneville. Seeing the initials "MJ" on his saddle, the people of Payneville mistake Jones for the treacherous bandit Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), and they nearly kill him before he is rescued by Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). Grateful for her help, Jones falls for de Cherry, not knowing that she is Jarrad's girl and that she plans on using him to help Jarrad elude capture.

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John McCarten

The 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.

Oct 16, 2021

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Hamstrung by its mechanical plot devices.

Rated: C+

Jan 16, 2006

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Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

Smooth, entertaining Western comedy about a cowpoke mistaken for a gunslinger

Rated: 4/5

Nov 28, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Mar 26, 2005

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Ryan Cracknell

Apollo Guide

Rated: 68/100

Oct 30, 2001

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John S

Along Came Jones is a fantastic Western,a true classic!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/06/25

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Martin B

Loretta young is radiant, it's impossible to takes your eyes off her. There is literally only one person that could play Jones effectively and that's Gary Cooper. Just a fun movie wondering how Jones will muddle through the mess he doesn't seem to mind being in. William Demarest playing his one character actor part to perfection and critical to the plot. Poor Dan Duryea. Cast as the bad guy, sleazy guy literally all the time and he did it well for sure. I don't know how you can not like that movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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steve d

Cooper makes it fun.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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ashley h

Along Came Jones is an amazing film. It is about good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick who are mistaken for a ruthless outlaw. Gary Cooper and Loretta Young give excellent performances. The screenplay is good but a little slow in places. Stuart Heisler did a great job directing this movie. I enjoyed watching this motion picture because of the romance. Along Came Jones is a must see.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Poor Melody Jones, a simple soul, a good cowboy who has never really developed skill with firearms, gets himself mistaken for notorious western badman Monty Jarrad. Same general build, same initials and both are known to hang around with a cantankerous old timer. A recipe for trouble?... A sly satire of the very genre in which it resides--Gary Cooper, William Demarest, Dan Duryea & Loretta Young join forces in this Entertaining Western Farce... Saddle Bums on the run!!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Frances H

Your typical cute old Gary Cooper type western, with a young Loretta Young at her most beautiful and William Demarest as the crusty old wisecracking side kick.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/22/13

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Synopsis

Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) is a laid-back cowboy who gets lost on the trail and ends up in the small town of Payneville. Seeing the initials "MJ" on his saddle, the people of Payneville mistake Jones for the treacherous bandit Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), and they nearly kill him before he is rescued by Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). Grateful for her help, Jones falls for de Cherry, not knowing that she is Jarrad's girl and that she plans on using him to help Jarrad elude capture.

Director: Stuart Heisler
Producer: Gary Cooper
Screenwriter: Nunnally Johnson
Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures
Production Co: International Pictures Inc. [us]
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 19, 1945, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2017
Runtime: 1h 30m

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