High Lonesome (film)

High Lonesome is a 1950 produced, Technicolor, Western, period movie, written and directed by Alan Le May, who is famous as the writer for the classic Westerns The Searchers and The Unforgiven. It is his only directing credit. This film stars John Drew Barrymore billed as John Barrymore, Jr. and features Chill Wills and Jack Elam. It is set in the Big Bend country of West Texas.

Given the nickname Cooncat by the cook, the boy explains that he was wrongfully accused of murdering a man named Shell and has fled from the law. Shell owed him money, he says, and two strangers known as Smiling Man and Roper gave him a gun to confront Shell. He wound up unconscious and next to Shells bulletriddled body.Horse doubts the boys story, though youngest daughter Meagan believes it. At a barnwarming party for Pat, word comes that his parents have been found murdered. A livid Pat is ready to hang Cooncat for the crime. Horse talks him out of it, creating a rift between the two old friends. ........

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