The Hanging Tree

“From The Prize Novel -- A Picture Of Thundering Power!”

Doc Frail (Gary Cooper) has come to a Montana gold camp to keep a past of his own behind him, and all he wants is to settle somewhere quiet and practice medicine. Then he cuts a man down from the hanging tree, takes him on as a servant, and nurses Elizabeth (Maria Schell), a young woman in shock after a coach robbery. Delmer Daves sets a story about a man who spends his life withholding himself and what it takes to make him stop.