The read
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 21m.
Synopsis
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert. There, they happen upon an ill woman stranded with her child. As the mother dies, she begs the men to take care of her infant. The fugitives want to save the baby -- but to do so, they'll have to travel back to New Jerusalem, where they are wanted men. Remade as 3 Godfathers (1949).
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Audiences rate it 23 points higher than critics do.
18 audience votes
Key crew
- Manuel SeffScreenplay
- William AxtOriginal Music Composer
- Richard BoleslawskiDirector
- Edward E. Paramore Jr.Screenplay
- Joseph L. MankiewiczWriter
- Ainsworth MorganWriter
Cast
- Chester MorrisRobert 'Bob' Sangster
- Lewis StoneJames 'Doc' Underwood
- Walter BrennanSamuel 'Gus' Barton
- Irene HerveyMolly
- Sidney TolerProfessor Amos Snape
- Dorothy TreeBlackie Winters
- Roger ImhofSheriff
- Willard RobertsonReverend McLane
- Robert LivingstonFrank Benson
- John SheehanEd Barrow
- Joseph MarievskyPedro
- Victor Potel'Buck Tooth'