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Colorado Territory (1949)
In Raoul Walsh's and Warner Bros' noirish western-adventure
(W.R. Burnett's novel High Sierra recast as a western), and
a remake of Walsh's own 1941 film:
- the train robbery sequence, orchestrated by ex-con
and outlaw Wes McQueen (Joel McCrea), Reno Blake (John Archer)
and Duke Harris (James Mitchell) along with Reno's part-Indian
(mixed-race) El Paso dance-hall girlfriend, Colorado Carson (Virginia
Mayo)
- the growing relationship between McQueen and Colorado,
who became devoted and in love with Wes, but was told when she hugged
him: ("It won't work. I've got plans. There's no room in 'em
for you, not for the long haul")
Heroic Last Stand
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- the exciting conclusion in which wounded, sought-after
Wes McQueen made a last stand against a posse in rocky mountain
outcroppings of a deserted Indian settlement or ghost town named
Todos Santos, with Colorado Carson standing next to him with two
guns ablazing in each hand toward the authorities; they made a
heroic effort to defend themselves, but they were trapped, outnumbered
and shot down - and at the moment of their fateful deaths, they
poignantly clasped their hands together - finally reunited together
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Train Robbery
Colorado and McQueen
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