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5 January 1930 (USA)
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When four men rob a bank, one is killed and the other three escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm...
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(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Charles Bickford | ... | Robert 'Bob' Sangster |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Tom 'Barbwire' Gibbons |
| Fred Kohler | ... | William 'Wild Bill' Kearney |
| Fritzi Ridgeway | ... | Mrs. Frank Edwards, the mother |
| Joe De La Cruz | ... | José (as Jo de la Cruz) |
| Walter James | ... | Sheriff |
| Maria Alba | ... | Carmelita |
| Buck Connors | ... | Parson Jones (as 'Buck' Conners) |
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| Jim Corey | ... | Barfly (uncredited) |
| Mary Gordon | ... | Choir Member (uncredited) |
| Edward Hearn | ... | Frank Edwards (uncredited) |
 | John Huston | ... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Bert Lindley | ... | Gambler (uncredited) |
| Tom London | ... | Croupier (uncredited) |
| Bill Nestell | ... | Barfly (uncredited) |
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| William Wyler | |||
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| Tom Reed | (adaptation & dialogue) | |
| C. Gardner Sullivan | (chief story supervisor) | |
| Peter B. Kyne | novel "The Three Godfathers" | |
Produced by | |||
| Carl Laemmle Jr. | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Sam Perry | (sound and silent version) (uncredited) | ||
| Heinz Roemheld | (silent version) (uncredited) | ||
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| George Robinson | |||
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| Harry Marker | |||
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| C. Roy Hunter | .... | recording supervisor | |
| William Hedgcock | .... | sound technician (uncredited) | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Del Andrews | .... | supervising editor | |
Music Department | |||
| David Broekman | .... | synchronization and score | |
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| Carl Laemmle | .... | presenter | |
| Carl Laemmle | .... | studio president | |
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- Universal Pictures (1929) (USA) (theatrical)
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68 min
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Mono (Western Electric Equipment)
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Much tighter and less bloated with extra characters and subplots than the later versions. The story has enough plot on it's own. It avoids the pitfall of being syrupy, a pitfall that the John Wayne version does not avoid. It's not the sanitized west of most films of the genre. You just know that those hombres hadn't bathed in a month of Sundays. The film gets right down to business. It avoids another pitfall, as well. Early talkies tended to be just that--talkie. This film makes good use of visuals in developing the characters and moving along the story. It has much more of the feeling of the just past silent era about it than the just arrived talkie era.