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Behind the fanciful title of The Robin Hood of El Dorado, director William A. Wellman serves up a rousing and surprisingly thoughtful Hollywood Western hybrid unique in its time. Part biography, it's based on the real-life story of Mexican farmer Joaquin Murrieta, driven to banditry in Gold Rush-era California after encroaching American gold-seekers and desperadoes cause the deaths of his wife and brother. Part indictment of prejudice and injustice, it quakes with the smoldering fury that energizes Wellman's better-known Wild Boys of the Road and The Ox-Bow Incident. But it's 100% compelling, filmedwith a invigorating sense of spectacle and the wide outdoors, and performed with zest and conviction by Warner Baxter as Murrieta (recalling his Oscar winning* In Old Arizona role as the Cisco Kid), J. Carrol Naish as grisly badman Three-Fingered Jack, and Ann Loring and Margo as the two loves of Murrieta's life. Viva Joaquin!
Movie Details
- Format
- DVD
- Encoding
- Region 1 (US & Canada)
- Rating
- NR
- Originally Released
- 1936
- Runtime
- 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Label
- Warner
- Starring
- Warner Baxter;Ann Loring;Bruce Cabot;Margo;J. Carrol Naish;Soledad JimA(c)nez;Carlos De Valdez;Eric Linden;Edgar Kennedy;Charles Trowbridge
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