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.

 

Beau Geste (1939): William Wellman’s Oscar-Nominated Adventure, Starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, J. Carrol Naish

William Wellman’s is the second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren’s adventure novel “Beau Geste,” made as silent in 1926, with Ronald Colman in the Gary Cooper part.