{"id":15537,"date":"2023-03-07T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15537"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T21:52:59","slug":"colorado-territory-1949-raoul-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15537","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Territory (1949, Raoul Walsh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A darker remake of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15536\">High Sierra<\/a><\/em>; all the characters here are worse, corrupt and quicker to turn on each other.  Virginia Mayo very good, always looks like she has secret access to a well-equipped powder room in the dusty abandoned church where they&#8217;re hiding out, and bolder than Ida Lupino, gets killed along with Joel &#8220;Bogie&#8221; McCrea when he runs into the high sierras (err, the rockies).<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Henry Hull is recast here as the girl&#8217;s dad, and Dorothy Malone (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/497\">Written on the Wind<\/a><\/em>) doesn&#8217;t just turn Joel down, she tries to turn him in for the reward money.  Joel isn&#8217;t released from jail &#8211; he&#8217;s sprung by &#8220;the old man&#8221; who pairs him with two assholes for a train robbery.  Tough guy Reno (<em>Destination Moon<\/em> star John Archer) and smart guy Duke (James Mitchell, also in Joel&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2657\">Stars in My Crown<\/a><\/em>) get themselves hanged, and I think the traitor cop gets shot.  All different dialogue, and just as good.<\/p>\n<p><em>L-R: smart guy, tough guy, Mayo<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/colorado1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/colorado2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A darker remake of High Sierra; all the characters here are worse, corrupt and quicker to turn on each other. Virginia Mayo very good, always looks like she has secret access to a well-equipped powder room in the dusty abandoned church where they&#8217;re hiding out, and bolder than Ida Lupino, gets killed along with Joel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,492,1224,1691,179,2623,105],"class_list":["post-15537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-dorothy-malone","tag-joel-mccrea","tag-raoul-walsh","tag-remake","tag-virginia-mayo","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15561,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15537\/revisions\/15561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}