Hell's Heroes (1929)
The All-Talking Outdoor Classic
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
- Date of release
- 1929-12-27
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- William Wyler
Casting
- Charles Bickford — Bob Sangster
- Raymond Hatton — Tom 'Barbwire' Gibbons
- Fred Kohler — 'Wild Bill' Kearney
- Fritzi Ridgeway — Mother
- Joe De La Cruz — José
- Walter James — Sheriff
- Maria Alba — Carmelita
- Buck Connors — Parson Jones
- Jim Corey — Barfly (uncredited)
- Mary Gordon — Choir Member (uncredited)
- Edward Hearn — Frank Edwards (uncredited)
- John Huston — Church Member (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Hell's Heroes is a 1929 American pre-Code Western sound film, one of many screen adaptations of Peter B. Kyne's 1913 short story The Three Godfathers.
Production
The real Western town of Bodie, California, stood in for the fictional town of New Jerusalem. The production utilized much of the town's main street and included both exterior and interior footage of the Bodie Bank, which burned in 1932, and Methodist Church. The bank robbery sequence features an elaborate horse-drawn hearse that is still on display in the town's museum.
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