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5.2/10   35 votes
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Director:
George Sherman
Writers:
George Sherman (story)
Maurice Geraghty (writer) ...
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Release Date:
4 July 1949 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Plot:
How good luck with women and horses pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #13569) | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA more
Company:
Universal International Pictures (UI) more

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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." more
Quotes:
[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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Pause for thought, 30 June 2001
8/10
Author: lyon5 (ellelle@standard.net.au) from Victoria, Australia

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.

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