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Along Came Jones

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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 10/16/2021
Along Came Jones includes enough of the uproar that Hollywood has always associated with sleepy Western towns to keep the customers reasonably diverted. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/16/2006
C+
Hamstrung by its mechanical plot devices. Go to Full Review
Daniel Eagan Film Journal International 11/28/2005
4/5
Smooth, entertaining Western comedy about a cowpoke mistaken for a gunslinger Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 03/26/2005
2/5
Ryan Cracknell Apollo Guide 10/30/2001
68/100
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John S Jul 6 Along Came Jones is a fantastic Western,a true classic! See more Martin B 02/17/2023 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. See more steve d 07/22/2020 Cooper makes it fun. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 11/20/2016 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. See more 01/17/2015 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!! See more Frances H 11/15/2013 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. See more 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
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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