Gary Cooper was 10 years older than Lee J. Cobb
Good movie, but the idea of Cobb being Cooper's uncle and raising Cooper was a hard one to swallow.
shareI'll say! Kinda ruined movie for me.
shareI knew Gary was a bit old for the part but I'm surprised to find that Lee J Cobb was so much younger. Mind you, it's easier to play older than younger. Doesn't spoil my enjoyment of a great film at all.
Incidentally, in Birdman of Alcatraz Burt Lancaster's 'mother' was 8 years older than he was, the same age difference as between Cary Grant and his 'mother' in North by Northwest.
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Here's another one for you. In The Vikings Kirk Douglas is two years older than his 'father', Ernest Borgnine. Would you have known?
It ain't like it used to be. But it'll do.
Icredible old. It didn't ruin either of those two movies and Brognine and Cobb were great in their parts with great makeup.
Now Julie Harris playing a 12 year old when she was 27 in The Member of the Wedding was hard to believe. Of course I saw it several years after it was released.
You and your stupid age-casting hang-ups, EdWeirdo! Cobb SPECIALIZED in playing old men and screen dads of lead actors close to his own, actual age or older when he was still in his 20's. See "Golden Boy" (1939). Cobb's character is even older than Barbara Stanwyck's boss/would-be lover, Adolph Menjou, who, in real life, was old enough to be the father of Cobb.
If there was any miscasting that gets you all hot-and-bothered over Cooper's age in "Man of the West," then maybe someone who was at least several years older than Coop, like Walter Brennan, should have played the Cobb part.
But Cobb was a consumate actor and only people who know the birthdates of Cooper and Cobb and who have the moronic issues YOU have, EdWeirdo, have any problem enjoying a Western that has a great director like Anthony Mann and the excellent performances of Cooper and Cobb--as well as the great supporting work of Jack Lord and Royal Dano.
BTW, you've been noticibly (and THANKFULLY) absent in your EC guise, but the general consensus seems to be that you're still active at IMDb in the teeny-bopper boards. Could one of your trademarked, trollish responses to THIS post be lurking just around the corner?
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Okay, I've already switched gears and agreed with you in private on this. I still think it was okay for Cobb to portray older men but have to agree that him playing men much older than characters being portrayed by actors ten or more years older than himself is a bit on the preposterous side. That being said, despite all these hang-ups this is still a solid and watchable Western and it's best to just suspend our disbelief as best we can.
Okay folks, show's over, nothing to see here!