COLORADO TERRITORY
Special Features: 75th Anniversary. Introduction by George Pelecanos on March 16
In this Western remake of director Raoul Walsh’s own HIGH SIERRA, Joel McCrea is the longtime outlaw whose hope to make one more score and then retire peacefully to the country goes awry. Virginia Mayo is the dancehall girl he initially mistrusts, only to discover, in the end, that she was in fact his most trusted friend. The same story would get yet another remake, once more as a gangster tale, in 1955, with Jack Palance and Shelley Winters as I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES. DIR Raoul Walsh; SCR Edmund H. North, John Twist, from the novel by W.R. Burnett; PROD Anthony Veiller. U.S., 1949, b&w, 94 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Genre: Western