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Monumental Western That Defined the Genre I've read reviews on other sites that complain this movie is full of cliches. This movie invented those cliches, that hundreds of movies have copied since. What is a standard trope in 2026 was revolutionary in 1929. The silent cowboy, the boastful angry cattle rustler, the innocent girl from back east, the funny sidekick, the hanging of a friend and the showdown at the end of the movie, had never been done before in this way. Gary Cooper, as The Virginian, became the model which hundreds of leading men in westerns strove to copy. Walter Huston p…
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