Colorado Territory

1949
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1h 34m

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7.2/10

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Virginia Mayo and Joel McCrea in Colorado Territory (1949)

In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

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Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.Outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Stage Driver
(uncredited)

George Bell

Deputy
(uncredited)

Oliver Blake

Wells Fargo Agent
(uncredited)

Monte Blue

U.S. Marshal
(uncredited)

Ben Corbett

Posse Member
(uncredited)

Jack Daley

Fireman
(uncredited)

Director
- Raoul Walsh
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Trivia
"Colorado Territory" is a remake of the same director's 1941 film High Sierra (1940) with a Western setting.

Goofs
At 37:00, McQueen goes to visit his old partner. He sits down at a table with him and takes out a pouch of tobacco and rolling paper. He opens the pouch and sprinkles tobacco onto the paper, then pulls the drawstring on the tobacco pouch with his teeth and throws the pouch on the table. Seconds later, in the next scene, the pouch is back in his hand and he repeats the same process.

Quotes
Wes McQueen: It reminds me of a little heist we planned in west Kansas about five or six years ago. One fella was smooth and slippery. The other was green and gabby. The third was just plain mean, from the top of his head to his boot heel. The next thing we know, there was a boxcar of soldiers coupled to that train. Too bad we never knew which one sent word to the soldiers. It would have been better for the other two if we had. Their monuments are right outside Boxville, Kansas. The prettiest little Bone Orchard you've ever seen. Little stone angels watching them.

Connections
Featured in Century of Cinema: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

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`The sun goes west and so the opportunity'

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