Colorado Territory Poster

Colorado Territory (1949)

06/11/1949 Western, Crime, Romance 1h 34m
70%
User
Score
7.2/10

A mighty, memorable new adventure hurtling out of the heroic vastness of Colorado Territory.

Overview

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

John Twist

Screenplay

Edmund H. North

Screenplay

Raoul Walsh

Director

Top Billed Cast

Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Wes McQueen

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Colorado Carson

Dorothy Malone

Dorothy Malone

Julie Ann Winslow

Henry Hull

Henry Hull

Fred Winslow

John Archer

John Archer

Reno Blake

James Mitchell

James Mitchell

Duke Harris

Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

United States Marshal

Basil Ruysdael

Basil Ruysdael

Dave Rickard ('The Old Man')

Frank Puglia

Frank Puglia

Brother Tomas

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Media

Colorado Territory Original Trailer

Colorado Territory Original Trailer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on July 12, 2015

Territorial Doom.

Colorado Territory is directed by Raoul Walsh and adapted to screenplay by Edmund H. North and John Twist from the novel "High Sierra" written by W.R. Burnett. It stars Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by Sidney Hickox.

Raoul Walsh remakes his own High Sierra from 1941 but supplants it into a Western genre setting - with tremendous results.

McCrea plays outlaw Wes McQueen who springs from prison and vows to go straight, but with a price on his head he is coerced into one last railroad robbery. If he can escape the law then he can make a go of it as a new man, with a new name, and comforted by a new found love of a good woman, Colorado Carson (Mayo). Can he escape the law and those who would s...

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