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      Along Came Jones

      Released Jul 19, 1945 1h 30m Western List
      40% 5 Reviews Tomatometer 51% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Apr 12 Buy Now

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      StephenPaul C The greatest 1.5 hours ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/21/23 Full Review 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 Full Review steve d Cooper makes it fun. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      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. Oct 16, 2021 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Hamstrung by its mechanical plot devices. Rated: C+ Jan 16, 2006 Full Review Daniel Eagan Film Journal International Smooth, entertaining Western comedy about a cowpoke mistaken for a gunslinger Rated: 4/5 Nov 28, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Mar 26, 2005 Full Review Ryan Cracknell Apollo Guide Rated: 68/100 Oct 30, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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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
      William Goetz
      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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