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Writers:
Edmund H. North (writer)
John Twist (writer)
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Release Date:
11 June 1949 (USA) more
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Plot:
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners... more | add synopsis
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Also Known As:
North of the Rio Grande (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
94 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Continuity: A cigarette string in Wes McQueen's front pocket changes shape, position and then disappears altogether. more
Quotes:
Dave Rickard: Have a drink, boy.
Wes McQueen: Are you supposed to have that stuff?
Dave Rickard: Oh, why not? We all got to die sometime. Me, you, and the whole cock-eyed world. It doesn't make much difference what kills us.
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14 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
`The sun goes west and so the opportunity', 15 May 2003
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Author: Ilya Mauter

Colorado Territory is undoubtedly one of the best films directed by Raoul Walsh.In fact it's sort of a remake of a film Walsh directed 10 years before this one – High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino.

Colorado Territory's story revolves around a very sympathetic outlaw Wes McQueen (Joel McCrea) who is finally caught and put in jail but obviously not for a very long time, cause his former companions devise a plan to rob the train and are most certainly in need of him to be able to pull it off successfully. So they help him to escape. After Wes succeeds in doing so he finds a refuge in a distant abandoned village in the mountains where he meets his partners together with a spirited and beautiful woman Colorado (Virginia Mayo) who ends up falling in love with him not knowing that his heart already belongs to another very different woman Julie Ann (Dorothy Malone) who in her turn, doesn't know about Wes McQueen being one of the most sought after outlaws in the west. The question now is not who stays with the girl, but who stays with the guy in the most fateful and poignant film's ending. 8/10

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