A Man from Wyoming * (1930, Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 8236

‘Tender romance mid the thrills of fighting! No-Man’s land and the night life on the gay, war-time Riviera.’

The young Gary Cooper (already 29) stars in director Rowland V Lee’s 1930 romantic war drama A Man from Wyoming as builder Jim Baker, the Wyoming lad who goes abroad with his engineer buddy Jersey (Regis Toomey) to the front in France with the American Army Engineer Corps in World War One.

He saves the life of an AWOL American socialite nurse, Patricia Hunter (June Collyer) working in the Ambulance Corps. They fall in love and are married in secret.

This mediocre Paramount Pictures programmer is only an antique curio now.

Albert S Le Vino and John V A Weaver’s hollow, tear-jerking screenplay (based on a story by Lew Lipton and Joseph Moncure March) sinks it, and there is little that even Cooper can do, though it might be worth a look for him, and there is nothing that Collyer and Toomey can do at all.

A Man from Wyoming was filmed at the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, California.

Also in the cast are Morgan Farley as Lieutenant Lee, E H Calvert as Major General Hunter, Mary Foy as Inspector, Emile Chautard as French mayor, Edgar Dearing as Sergeant, William B Davidson as Major, Ben Hall as Orderly, J Parker McConnell as Captain in dugout, Frances Dee, Kenne Duncan and Hall Parker.

A Man from Wyoming is directed by Rowland V Lee, runs 70 minutes, is made and released by Paramount, written by John V A Weaver and Albert Shelby Le Vino, based on a story by Lew Lipton and Joseph Moncure March, is shot in black and white by Harry Fischbeck and is scored by Karl Hajos.

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