| Along Came Jones | |
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| Directed by | Stuart Heisler |
| Written by | Nunnally Johnson |
| Based on | Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May |
| Produced by | Gary Cooper Walter Thompson |
| Starring | Gary Cooper Loretta Young Dan Duryea William Demarest |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | Thomas Neff |
| Music by | Arthur Lange |
Production companies | International Pictures Cinema Artists |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Along Came Jones is a 1945 American Western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea. The film was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the 1944 novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his long film career.
Much of the film was shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California. Cooper had previously worked at the movie ranch in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) and other productions. Cooper had a Western town built at the movie ranch for Along Came Jones; this Western set was subsequently used in many other productions over the next 20 years and became a fixture in B-Westerns in particular.
The film spoofs many Western film cliches as well as the Western persona that Cooper played in previous films, such as the lead character being unable to shoot straight and partial to singing "silly songs" while riding his horse.[1][2][3][4]
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