The Westerner

Walter Brennan is Bean, a hard-nosed judge who dispenses his own unique brand of justice. Gary Cooper is Cole Harden, a stranger accused of stealing horses who attempts to talk himself out of the hangman's noose. Soon, each man wins the other's grudging friendship... until Bean's deadly scheming against the homesteaders provokes Harden into opposing him - no matter what the cost! (official distributor synopsis)