Release Year: 1948
Release Date: Wed Jan 12 1949
Runtime: 106 minutes
Filmed In Color
Genre: Drama, Western
Filming Locations: Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Studio: MGM
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Actors: Tex Driscoll (as Barfly), Francis Ford (as Drunk), Richard Hageman (as Saloon Pianist), Jack Kenny (as Barfly), Cliff Lyons (as Guard at Mojave Tanks), Jack Mower (as Barfly), Eva Novak (as Townswoman), Charles Soldani (as Townsman), Harry Tenbrook (as Bartender), Amelia Yelda (as Robert William Pedro Hightower (the Baby))
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Plot: Fugitive bank robbers Robert (John Wayne), William (Harry Carey Jr.) and Pedro (Pedro Armendáriz) stand at a desert grave. Caring for the newborn infant of the woman they just buried will ruin any chance of escape. But they won’t go back on their promise to her. They won’t abandon little Robert William Pedro. Director John Ford’s Western retelling of the Biblical Three Wise Men tale remains a scenic and thematic masterpiece. Ford adds color to his feature-film palette, capturing stunning vistas via cinematographer Winton C. Hoch, who would win two of his three Academy Awards for Ford films. Again, populist-minded Ford asserts that even men of dissolute character can follow that inner star of Bethlehem to their own redemption.
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Sources: Museum Of Western Film History Archives, IMDb, JustWatch