Customer Reviews

The Cowboy and the Lady (Import PAL) [VHS]

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I saw this movie as a young teenager, when black and white movies dominated weekends and rainy days! This was a romance that helped set the stage for all I find good in a romance: innocence, humor, drama, passion (the boat scene when he knew he had to marry her that night because of his passion for her), and the down home sweetness and good moral lessons shared, and a happy ending! A hunky leading man and a beautiful woman needing the love of a good man! Romance doesn't get any better than this. Great for the whole family!

This movie touched me so deeply.......the story line is much the same as today's romantic comedies, but without the graphic language and details. When Gary Cooper's character tells Merle Oberon's character..."When a man feels this way about a woman, it's time to get married".....there is no doubt what that means....and as the camera fades to the porthole...it left me sighing........

It's not just the timeless story line here that I love, it's all the supporting cast too. Besides Cooper and Oberon, Walter Brennan again captures my heart as one of the finest. The scene in the unfinished house with the cowboys on their haunches "playing house" with Cooper is great. And the one on the boat to Galveston sums it all up. Watch this one close boys, it's what every woman wants!

This is an old-fashioned star vehicle. Slender story, slender characterizations. But it is made highly entertaining by Gary Cooper's delightfully understated performance. An example of why Cooper is one of the half-dozen greatest stars of all time.

This is a classic. 'Coop' in the 1930's was one of the screen's most dashing leading men, and his convincing portrayal of a shy, sweet, rather naive cowboy who quickly falls in love with the sophisticated and beautiful Meryl Oberon (impersonating a maid in her mansion in order to go slumming and put the Coop at ease) is a fun story that will have you rooting for the young mismatched lovers from beginning to end. Dorothy Parker and Anita Loos helped Leo McCarey write the script, so it crackles with fun dialogue, and the character actors include the always great Walter Brennan (looking impossibly young), Patsy Kelly, and Harry Davenport -- even if you don't recognize the names, you will the faces, and they always bring solid performances to a movie. At times it can seem overly cute, but then, the movies of the 1930s can now seem innocent that way! If you profess to be a classic movie fan and are not familiar with the movie, you aren't 'there' yet!

Thank goodness I couldn't sleep and I caught this movie in the middle of the night. It is such a gem. It doesn't take long to find out that you are watching two stars, Oberon and Cooper, who could really deliver lines, but that those lines are singularly fabulous. The writing and directing are so far above today's common fare, that you quickly notice you're watching a really good film in the guise of an ordinary, simple story.

I never got this. They refunded my order when they realized they diddent have it.