Bright Leaf (1950): Curtiz’ Melodrama, Starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Lauren Bacall

Warner’s pro director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pearce) made this overbaked melodrama in 1950, revolving around a romantic triangle, with Gary Cooper at the center, torn between his attraction to two different women, played by Lauren Bacall and Patricia Neal, who steals every scene she is in.

Along Came Jones (1945): Stuart Heisler Directs Gary Cooper \Western (Only Movie He Produced), Co-Starring Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea

The only movie Gary Cooper produced, Along Came Jones is an effort at a Western comedy, featuring Cooper and Loretta Young at the height of their popularity.

Cloak and Dagger (1946): Fritz Lang’s WWII Thriller, Starring Gary Cooper and Lili Palmer (Strangers in Paradise)

In this Fritz Lang-directed film, Gary Cooper plays the mild-mannered Alvah Jesper, a professor of physics at a leading university, who is drafted by the OSS to enter Switzerland, and then Italy, just prior to the end of World War II.

Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The (1955): Preminger Directs, Gary Cooper Stars

One of Preminger’s few dull films, “The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell” stars Gary Cooper, who’s miscast in the title role.

Distant Drums (1951): Raoul Walsh’s Actioner, Starring Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb

In “Distant rums, “ directed by Raoul Walsh, Gary Cooper plays Captain Quincy Wyatt, an experienced Indian fighter, who leads a small force deep into the Florida Everglades to put down a Seminole uprising.