Although Walter Brennan won his third of three supporting actor Oscars—still the record—for his part as the “mangy old scorpion” Judge Roy Bean in 1940’s The Westerner, it’s probably more accurate to say Gary Cooper did most of the supporting. It’s Brennan’s picture from the get-go, and it’s impossible to imagine any other actor capable of bringing so much charm and likability to so despica
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