Robin Hood of El Dorado [DVD]
Behind the fanciful title of The Robin Hood of El Dorado, director William A. Wellman serves up a rousing and surprisingly thoughtful Hollywood Western hybrid unique in it's time. Part biography, it's based on the real-life story of Mexican farmer Joaquin Murrieta, driven to banditry in Gold Rush-era California after encroaching American gold-seekers and desperadoes cause the deaths of his wife and brother. Part indictment of prejudice and injustice, it quakes with the smoldering fury that energizes Wellman's better-known Wild Boys of the Road and The Ox-Bow Incident. But it's 100% compelling, filmed with a invigorating sense of spectacle and the wide outdoors, and performed with zest and conviction by Warner Baxter as Murrieta (recalling his Oscar?winning* In Old Arizona role as the Cisco Kid), J. Carrol Naish as grisly badman Three-Fingered Jack, and Ann Loring and Margo as the two loves of Murrieta's life. Viva Joaquin!
Behind the fanciful title of The Robin Hood of El Dorado, director William A. Wellman serves up a rousing and surprisingly thoughtful Hollywood Western hybrid unique in it's time. Part biography, it's based on the real-life story of Mexican farmer Joaquin Murrieta, driven to banditry in Gold Rush-era California after encroaching American gold-seekers and desperadoes cause the deaths of his wife and brother. Part indictment of prejudice and injustice, it quakes with the smoldering fury that energizes Wellman's better-known Wild Boys of the Road and The Ox-Bow Incident. But it's 100% compelling, filmed with a invigorating sense of spectacle and the wide outdoors, and performed with zest and conviction by Warner Baxter as Murrieta (recalling his Oscar?winning* In Old Arizona role as the Cisco Kid), J. Carrol Naish as grisly badman Three-Fingered Jack, and Ann Loring and Margo as the two loves of Murrieta's life. Viva Joaquin!
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Robin Hood of El Dorado [DVD]—
$22.99
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Behind the fanciful title of The Robin Hood of El Dorado, director William A. Wellman serves up a rousing and surprisingly thoughtful Hollywood Western hybrid unique in it's time. Part biography, it's based on the real-life story of Mexican farmer Joaquin Murrieta, driven to banditry in Gold Rush-era California after encroaching American gold-seekers and desperadoes cause the deaths of his wife and brother. Part indictment of prejudice and injustice, it quakes with the smoldering fury that energizes Wellman's better-known Wild Boys of the Road and The Ox-Bow Incident. But it's 100% compelling, filmed with a invigorating sense of spectacle and the wide outdoors, and performed with zest and conviction by Warner Baxter as Murrieta (recalling his Oscar?winning* In Old Arizona role as the Cisco Kid), J. Carrol Naish as grisly badman Three-Fingered Jack, and Ann Loring and Margo as the two loves of Murrieta's life. Viva Joaquin!
