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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
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4 July 1949 (USA)
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How good luck with women and horses pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry. full summary | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast)| Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Calamity Jane | |
| Howard Duff | ... | Sam Bass | |
| Dorothy Hart | ... | Katherine Egan | |
| Willard Parker | ... | Sheriff Will Egan | |
| Norman Lloyd | ... | Jim Murphy | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Joel Collins | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Harry Dean | |
| Houseley Stevenson | ... | Dakota | |
| Milburn Stone | ... | Abe Jones | |
| Clifton Young | ... | Link | |
| John Rodney | ... | Morgan | |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Marshal Peak | |
| Ann Doran | ... | Mrs. Lucy Egan | |
| Charles Cane | ... | J. Wells | |
| Walter Baldwin | ... | Doc Purdy |
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85 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass were both in Deadwood, South Dakota in 1876 and 1877, when they were in their 20's, but there is nothing to show that the two ever met and the rather flimsy plot of this film has little or no relation to reality. Sam Bass (born on July 21, 1851) ran away from home and eventually got to San Antonio, Texas. He drove cattle to Kansas, moved on to Deadwood, and held up the Deadwood stage seven times. On September 19, 1877 he robbed the Union Pacific train at Big Springs, Nebraska, got away and returned to Texas. He was shot during an aborted bank robbery in Round Rock, Texas and died the next day, on his birthday, July 21, 1878. When her family moved west, Martha Jane "Calamity Jane" Cannary (born May 1, 1852) eventually settled in Deadwood, South Dakota, where she became friendly with Wild Bill Hickok and later claimed to have borne his child. Hickok was killed during a poker game on August 2, 1876. Jane died in Terry, South Dakota on August 1, 1903, allegedly saying, "Bury me beside Wild Bill - the only man I ever loved."
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[Sam Bass and friends have just held up a stagecoach and removed only part of the money from the strong box]
Joel Collins: Well, we could've had our ranch out of that box.
Sam Bass: No, we couldn't, Joel. The way we did it, even if this thing comes out, people will know that we took back only what he stole from us. They'll be on our side.
Dakota: Sure, we wouldn't want 'em to think we robbed this stage dishonestly.
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Joel Collins: Well, we could've had our ranch out of that box.
Sam Bass: No, we couldn't, Joel. The way we did it, even if this thing comes out, people will know that we took back only what he stole from us. They'll be on our side.
Dakota: Sure, we wouldn't want 'em to think we robbed this stage dishonestly.
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This is largely an unremarkable little film, with mostly wooden performances typical of the time in which it was made, but it does show how easy it is for a man to take the wrong turning through no fault of his own, when circumstances beyond his control provide no other option.