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Cole Younger, Gunfighter

"ROWDIEST, LUSTIEST AFFAIR EVER SEEN!"

An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

Top Cast

  • Frank Lovejoy

    Frank Lovejoy

    Cole Younger

  • James Best

    James Best

    Kit Caswell

  • Abby Dalton

    Abby Dalton

    Lucy Antrim

  • Jan Merlin

    Jan Merlin

    Frank Wittrock

  • Douglas Spencer

    Douglas Spencer

    Marshal Fred Woodruff

  • Ainslie Pryor

    Ainslie Pryor

    Captain Follyard

  • Frank Ferguson

    Frank Ferguson

    Sheriff Ralph Wittrock

  • Myron Healey

    Myron Healey

    Phil Bennett / Charlie Bennett

  • George Keymas

    George Keymas

    Sgt. Price, State Police

Overview

An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

Rating

6.6 / 10
7 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • John Chard
    John Chard
    5 Aug 28, 2015

    A remake of The Desperado (1954) In 1873 the proud citizens of Texas were humiliated and oppressed under the carpet-bagger administration of Governor E.J. Davis and his especially created state police, the corrupt and tyrannical "Bluebellies". Natuarlly they didn't take it lying down - - - R.G. Springsteen directs and Daniel Mainwaring adapts from Clifton Adams' novel, The Desperado. This is pretty much a like for like remake of Thomas Carr's 1954 version which took the title of the novel. Only difference here is that it is in De Luxe Color and filmed through the CinemaScope process. Main character change is with the outlaw Cole Younger (Frank Lovejoy), where in the 54 film it was an outlaw named Sam Garrett played by Wayne Morris. In short the pic finds James Best having to leave town due to a violent confrontation with the Bluebellie captain. On the run and having left behind the love of his life (Abby Dalton), he hooks up with outlaw Cole Younger, forms a friendship and is thankful of that friendship when treacherous Frank Wittrock (Jan Merlin) fits him up for a murder. It looks absolutely gorgeous, the colour, the Simi Valley locations, costumes and set design, but it rarely raises the pulses. It sort of plods through the story and fails to utilise what is a decent cast (it was Lovejoy's last feature length film). There's some value in the themes at work, such as refusing to bow to tyranny and that some gunmen were honourable and kept to gentlemen codes of conduct, but really it's lazy and you are strongly urged to seek out the far superior 54 film instead. 5/10

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