Colorado Territory (1949)

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genre

Western film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An outlaw is freed from prison to join a heist on a railroad. Things go wrong when he gets involved with two women and a posse chases him.

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What happens

Colorado Territory is a 1949 American Western film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, and Dorothy Malone. Written by Edmund H. North and John Twist, and based on the novel High Sierra by W.R. Burnett, the film is about an outlaw Wes McQueen who is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. This version is a remake of the 1941 crime film High Sierra starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, also directed by Walsh. The story was remade for a third time in 1955 as I Died a Thousand Times with Jack Palance and Shelley Winters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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