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The Desperado (1954)
Topic Started: Dec 10 2017, 08:55 PM (235 Views)
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The Desperado (1954) Dir. Thomas Carr
An Allied Artists Release
80 min. / B&W / 1.85:1
DVD: Warner Archive

Texas in the post-Civil War period is under control of a carpetbagger governor and his fascist marshals called the "Blue Bellies" with disdain by townsfolk. When they kill young James Lydon's pa, he teams with outlaw gunslinger Wayne Morris to right some wrongs and have some fun, including romancing pretty Beverly Garland, killing the Lee Van Cleef twins, and avoidin' all the folks on both sides of the law who want them dead.

Hey! This was a GOOD one! Who knew?!?!

The cast sort of snuck up on me: for a second, I thought I was watchin' a Robert Lippert film, what with good ol' Stanley Price as the Dialog Director (and one of the actors), but check out this supporting cast: Roy Barcroft, I. Stanford Jolley, Dabbs Greer, Nestor Paiva (as one of the crookedest lawmen you'll ever see), William Fawcett, Lyle Talbot, Florence Lake, Robert Shayne, and a whole bunch o' other people I'm forgettin'. A really good cast with an excellent script, actually. Wayne Morris looks tired and puffy and I'm not sure whether that was his character or his drinking habits, but it fit. And my, how we love Miss Garland.

Million-dollar Dialog:
Good advice from a gunslinger: "Bad guns are like bad friends, they let you down when you need them the most."

A fine "little picture" with a top western cast and a great widescreen print from Warner Archive. This one was a real find.
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