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Notorious outlaw Wes McQueen breaks out of jail and heads off to the Colorado Territory to meet the man who arranged the escape, his old friend Dave Rickard. Along the way, the stagecoach he is riding in is attacked by a gang of robbers.
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
- 94 min
Colorado Territory is a beautiful Western-Noir that, akin to Walsh’s own Pursued, explores the Western’s relationship with death and fate. McQueen is a character who, unlike those in Pursued, sees his end before he sees his second chance.
- Raoul Walsh
Colorado Territory (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
High Sierra + Colorado Territory. An old favorite receives a quality restoration: Raoul Walsh, John Huston, W.R. Burnett and actress Ida Lupino launch Humphrey Bogart as an A-list star deemed strong enough to carry romantic leads.
Colorado Territory - Full Cast & Crew. A veteran outlaw who is freshly sprung from prison meets up with his old partners for one last train heist, falling for a dance-hall girl along the way in...
March to the West Raoul Walsh remakes/re-adapts High Sierra as a western, and it turns out the heist works just as well as a train robbery. You can't trust anybody in this awful, desperate, forgotten ghost town of a world, least of all the people closest to you. There are two kinds of people in this world: victims of fate who suffer the consequences of their hard destiny, and arbiters of fate ...
