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The Desperado

Sam Garrett was all bad...all killer...and always ready to prove it!

7.2(6)19541h 20m2

"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger Sam Garrett offers that sage wisdom to fellow fugitive Tom Cameron, who's on the run from the "Bluebellies," Texas State Police officers who wield a brutal iron fist of enforcement in the early 1870s. But quick-draw, hard-bitten Garrett soon decides not to take his own advice after young Cameron heads home to surrender - and instead gets framed for a revenge murder by a jealous rival for the affections of his girl.

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English
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Thomas Carr

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR20 Jun 1954

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The Desperado was released on 20 June 1954.

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    John Chard

    12/24/2018

    8/10

    Blue Bellies Go Home! The Desperado is directed by Thomas Carr and adapted to screenplay by Geoffrey Holmes from the novel written by Clifton Adams. It stars Wayne Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Beverly Garland, Rayford Barnes, Dabbs Greer and Lee Van Cleef. Music is by Raoul Kraushaar and cinematography by Joseph Novak. "There is one dark and grim page in Texas history; it concerns the three years 1870 to 1873, during…

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