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The Desperadoes

Red-Blooded Action

5.9(31)19431h 27m2

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

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Language
English
  • banker
  • friendship
  • sheriff
  • prison escape
  • mailman

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR25 May 1943
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical12Columbia16 Feb 1951
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG17 Jan 1952

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The Desperadoes was released on 25 May 1943.

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  • W

    Wuchak

    9/15/2022

    6/10

    **_Randolph Scott and Glenn Ford are very young in this decent old Western_** In 1863 Utah, a wanted gunman (Ford) meets a winsome woman that makes him want to go straight and settle down (Evelyn Keyes), but a murderous bank robber’s false accusations get him into trouble with the law. Scott plays the sheriff of the town, Claire Trevor a hotel madam and Edgar Buchanan a duplicitous widower. Guinn 'Big Boy' William…

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    CinemaSerf

    2/17/2024

    6/10

    Though Randolph Scott takes top billing, I think it's Glenn Ford who takes the plaudits here in this ultimately rather predicable western. It starts off quite promisingly when the town of Red valley has it's bank robbed and suffers three citizens slaughtered. The bank's owner, "Clanton" (Porter Hall), magnanimously decides to pay out 50 cents on the dollar to those who lost out. In his back room, though, we realise t…

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