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Overview
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Edmund H. North (writer)
John Twist (writer)
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Release Date:
11 June 1949 (USA) more
Plot:
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners... more | add synopsis
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Very entertaining '40's western from Raoul Walsh. more (25 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Joel McCrea | ... | Wes McQueen | |
| Virginia Mayo | ... | Colorado Carson | |
| Dorothy Malone | ... | Julie Ann Winslow | |
| Henry Hull | ... | Fred Winslow | |
| John Archer | ... | Reno Blake | |
| James Mitchell | ... | Duke Harris | |
| Morris Ankrum | ... | United States Marshal | |
| Basil Ruysdael | ... | Dave Rickard ('The Old Man') | |
| Frank Puglia | ... | Brother Tomas | |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Homer Wallace | |
| Harry Woods | ... | Pluthner | |
| Houseley Stevenson | ... | Prospector |
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North of the Rio Grande (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved | Sweden:15 | Australia:G
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Continuity: A cigarette string in Wes McQueen's front pocket changes shape, position and then disappears altogether. more
Quotes:
Pluthner:
Was there any trouble?
Wes McQueen:
A little. The marshal picked up Reno and Duke.
Pluthner:
What? Ah, that was a tough break. They was good boys. But that's the game for ya... all part of the game. You and me, Wes - just you and me left out of that fine parcel of men. Of course, we end up with the money, you and me, but that's how the cards fall.
Wes McQueen:
Look, Pluthner! This deck has had so much bottom-dealing that it's dog-eared. Too many jokers keep turning up.
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Version of I Died a Thousand Times (1955) more
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Raoul Walsh was perhaps the most entertaining director of the '40's, with movies like "Objective, Burma!", "They Died with Their Boots On" and "Gentleman Jim" behind his name, plus he also made some good early westerns. Sounds like the perfect guy to direct a movie like this, especially since this movie is a western remake of his earlier directed movie classic "High Sierra", with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. This movie might not be as 'star-filled' as the original but it's just as entertaining, arousing and intriguing on its own.
Westerns from the '40's were much different from the later spaghetti-westerns everybody knows. The early westerns from the '40's and the decades before that are a bit forgotten movies, probably mainly because they differ so much from the later westerns from the '60's and '70's that everybody from that- and later generations, basically grew up with. Westerns from the '40's were much darker and possibly less formulaic. This movie is basically more 'film-noir' than real western. It has all the basic film-noir ingredients in it; Backstabbing characters, treacherous woman, a criminal plot and mysterious unpredictable characters. It makes this movie also real perfect to watch for persons who don't like spaghetti-westerns.
Leave it up to director Raoul Walsh to tell a story well and entertaining. The story of "Colorado Territory" really isn't the most spectacular story you could think of but the way it is told and brought to the screen all can be called spectacular. The movie is filled with some real good action sequences and spectacular looking stunts. But granted that the storytelling is not completely flawless. The movie is perhaps a bit too short and the love story of the movie also doesn't quite work out as good as it could had been. I don't know, for some reason it just doesn't feel right, or connects with the rest of the movie.
The storytelling also makes sure that the movie remains for most part unpredictable, which also helps to make the film-noir elements work out. "Colorado Territory" is a rare both unpredictable and entertaining movie.
The cast is solid. It isn't filled with the most known actors of its period. Perhaps Errol Flynn was expected to play a role in this, since he worked a lot with Raoul Walsh in the '40's but instead the main part is played by Joel McCrea, who was an expert at playing characters in westerns. He plays a good and convincing tough-guy who has a good heart. Perhaps a bit too much of a good heart to make the story entirely believable but that's just common and entirely fitting for '40's movie-making standards.
An interesting to watch- and spectacular entertaining noir-western, that just like its original version "High Sierra", deserves to be seen.
8/10