Colorado Territory (1949)

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  • COLORADO TERRITORY


    DIRECTED BY RAOUL WALSH
    MUSIC BY DAVID BUTTOPLH
    WARNER BROS



    INFORMATION FROM IMDb


    Plot Summary
    Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job.
    He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado -
    and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east
    to set up home with her father.
    Maybe time to get out.
    Unfortunately he also has a $10,000 reward on his head, dead or alive.
    Written by Jeremy Perkins


    Cast
    Joel McCrea ... Wes McQueen
    Virginia Mayo ... Colorado Carson
    Dorothy Malone ... Julie Ann Winslow
    Henry Hull ... Fred Winslow
    John Archer ... Reno Blake
    James Mitchell ... Duke Harris
    Morris Ankrum ... United States Marshal
    Basil Ruysdael ... Dave Rickard
    Frank Puglia ... Brother Tomas
    Ian Wolfe ... Homer Wallace
    Harry Woods ...Pluthner
    Houseley Stevenson ... Prospector


    Produced
    Anthony Veiller ... producer


    Cinematography
    Sidney Hickox ... (as Sid Hickox)


    Writing Credits
    John Twist ... (written by) and
    Edmund H. North ... (written by)
    W.R. Burnett ... (novel) (uncredited)


    Trivia
    Colorado Territory is a remake of the same director's 1941 film High Sierra.


    The first American movie to be banned in West Germany,
    due to being 'an example of gangster films which glorify anti-social elements'.


    Goofs
    Continuity
    A cigarette string in Wes McQueen's front pocket changes shape,
    position and then disappears altogether.


    At 37:00, McQueen goes to visit his old partner.
    He sits down at a table with him and takes put a pouch of tobacco and rolling paper.
    He opens the pouch & sprinkles tobacco onto the paper,
    then pulls the drawstring on the tobacco pouch with his teeth
    and throws the pouch on the table.
    Seconds later, in the next scene, the pouch is back in his hand and he repeats
    the same process.


    Factual errors
    Towards the end when Mayo is firing two single action revolvers,
    one in each hand, she does not thumb back the hammers.
    She fires them double action by just pulling the triggers.
    Not possible with single action revolvers.


    Revealing mistakes
    When Wes escapes from the jail cell at the beginning,
    and the lawmen rush into the cell and find the window bars
    sawed open with a hacksaw, they lift the window bars and they flex,
    obviously not made of iron or steel and clearly anyone could easily
    just tear them out by hand.


    Spoilers
    Audio/visual unsynchronised
    Towards the end when Colorado Carson runs into the posse camp
    she is asked who she is. She says "I'm his woman".
    The word "woman" has been dubbed, her lips clearly mouth "wife".


    Boom mic visible
    When Wes and Colorado are walking out of the old mission,
    talking about going to Mexico to be married,
    a moving shadow of the boom microphone is visible on the arched doorway behind them.


    Memorable Quotes


    Filming Locations
    Durango-Silverton Railway Line, Colorado, USA
    Gallup, New Mexico, USA
    Juarez Square, Warner Ranch, Calabasas, California, USA
    Sedona, Arizona, USA

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England

  • Colorado Territory is a 1949 American Western film 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 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 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.



    User Review


    Pretty darned solid
    20 April 2005 | by bushrod56 (Jacksonville, Fla)

    Best Wishes
    Keith
    London- England