The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes (1943)

Red-Blooded Action

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

Date of release
1943-05-25
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Western
Director
Charles Vidor

Casting

Interesting facts

The Desperadoes is a 1943 American Western film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes and Edgar Buchanan. Based on a story by Max Brand, the film is about a wanted outlaw who arrives in town to rob a bank that has already been held up. His past and his friendship with the sheriff land them both in trouble. The Desperadoes was the first Columbia Pictures production to be released in Technicolor.

Production

The assistant director was Budd Boetticher, then using his real name, Oscar Boetticher Jr. It was on this film that he met Scott and producer Brown. Fourteen years later, they would all re-team at Columbia to make the series of westerns known as the Ranown cycle (Ranown being a portmanteau of RANdolph and BrOWN).

Parts of the film were shot in Johnson Canyon, Kanab Canyon, the Gap, and Paria, Utah.

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