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The Badlanders

  • 19581958
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  • 1h 25m
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6.4/10
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The Badlanders (1958)
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Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of P... Read allReleased from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.

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  • Director
    • Delmer Daves
  • Writers
    • Richard Collins(screenplay)
    • W.R. Burnett(novel)
  • Stars
    • Alan Ladd
    • Ernest Borgnine
    • Katy Jurado
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  • Director
    • Delmer Daves
  • Writers
    • Richard Collins(screenplay)
    • W.R. Burnett(novel)
  • Stars
    • Alan Ladd
    • Ernest Borgnine
    • Katy Jurado
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    Claire Kelly in The Badlanders (1958)
    The Badlanders (1958)
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    Ernest Borgnine and Katy Jurado in The Badlanders (1958)
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    Alan Ladd
    Alan Ladd
    • Peter Van Hoek ('The Dutchman')as Peter Van Hoek ('The Dutchman')
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • John 'Mac' McBainas John 'Mac' McBain
    Katy Jurado
    Katy Jurado
    • Anitaas Anita
    Claire Kelly
    Claire Kelly
    • Ada Wintonas Ada Winton
    Kent Smith
    Kent Smith
    • Cyril Lounsberryas Cyril Lounsberry
    Nehemiah Persoff
    Nehemiah Persoff
    • Vincente - The Powder Monkeyas Vincente - The Powder Monkey
    Robert Emhardt
    Robert Emhardt
    • Sampleas Sample
    Anthony Caruso
    Anthony Caruso
    • Comancheas Comanche
    Adam Williams
    Adam Williams
    • Leslieas Leslie
    Ford Rainey
    Ford Rainey
    • Wardenas Warden
    John Daheim
    John Daheim
    • Leeas Lee
    • (as John Day)
    Barbara Baxley
    Barbara Baxley
    • Dianeas Diane
    • (scenes deleted)
    Zina Provendie
    Zina Provendie
    • Dorothy Lounsberryas Dorothy Lounsberry
    • (scenes deleted)
    Richard Bartell
    • Bartenderas Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    Gregg Barton
    Gregg Barton
    • Mine Foremanas Mine Foreman
    • (uncredited)
    Paul Baxley
    • Jeffas Jeff
    • (uncredited)
    John Bose
    John Bose
    • Prison Board Memberas Prison Board Member
    • (uncredited)
    George Boyce
    • Prison Board Memberas Prison Board Member
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Delmer Daves
    • Writers
      • Richard Collins(screenplay)
      • W.R. Burnett(novel)
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    Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, the Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from the people of a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. —Alfred Jingle
    • nogales arizona
    • prison
    • mining town
    • yuma prison
    • ex convict
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    • Taglines
      • A treasure to steal...a woman to win...a past to forget...
    • Genres
      • Romance
      • Western
    • Certificate
      • Approved
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    • Trivia
      Ernest Borgnine met his future wife Katy Jurado while working on this film. A reporter saw the two laughing over lunch one day and started a rumor that the two were involved romantically, which Borgnine insisted for the rest of his life was not true. The story persisted, though, and Borgnine's wife ended up divorcing him because of it. Ironically, he and Jurado grew closer and closer because of this trouble, and ended up marrying in 1959 and would remain so until 1963.
    • Goofs
      During the mine shaft cave-in during and after the ore is removed, a large vertical chuck of rock is shown breaking away from the shaft wall and collapsing twice.
    • Quotes

      Cyril Lounsbery: How much would you love me if I wasn't rich?

      Ada Winton: Not as much.

      Cyril Lounsbery: I didn't think so.

      Ada Winton: How much would you love me if I weren't pretty?

      Cyril Lounsbery: Well, that's a different cup of tea.

      Ada Winton: No it isn't. A man being rich is exactly like girl being pretty. So there!

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits: Arizona Territorial Prison 1898
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    7/10
    Sharp little western detailing the exploits of two, differing ex-cons faced with a shot at scoring some ill-gotten riches and everything that arises as a result of that.
    Whilst watching The Badlanders, it struck me just how similar most of what was playing out was to one of your more typically hard boiled crime novellas; indeed, further reading reveals the film's roots are wholly embedded within the realms of crime fiction transfused with heist genre tendencies, the film effectively a remake of 1950's The Asphalt Jungle which itself was adapted from a book of the same name. The film's structure of somewhat hardened folks let loose from jail, but with differing sets of ideas in how to live out the remainder of one's life, before going on to get involved with rather maddeningly attractive women; the grief which comes with that and the promise of the robbing of some riches which is mingling around in the area, you might say is wholly generic in the typical sense. The transporting of the tale form whatever decrepit urbanised locale you like, indeed a proverbial jungle formed out of concrete, and back to the Wild West does nothing to cease the pleasures garnered out of such generic conventions; The Badlanders eventually formulating into an absorbing piece balancing these crooks clashing in their post-incarceration existences, with their plannings of heists born out of devilish back-stories, with the betrayals that might naturally unfold post-heist.

    The Hellish truths which loomed over most of James Mangold's 2007 3:10 to Yuma remake, and most probably the majority of both Delmer Daves' original and the initial novel, is here, in this film, thrust upon us without much in the way of pleasantries. The stark realities of Yuma jail that the outlawed Ben Wade in said text faced, had his death sentence been revoked, hovered over the proceedings like the scorching sun did over the protagonist of that text's crops, and is here put right across from the off - wholly establishing where we stand in necessarily knowing anything about such a jail. Delmer Daves is back, his 1958 film The Badlanders plunging us into those realities of Yuma jail by plunging its two principal characters into the deep end of grief and strife as a result of being on the inside. We're at the back end of the nineteenth century; the searing sun in this, the dusty; grotty locale of Arizona searing down onto that of both its chief players: Ernest Borgnine's John McBain and Alan Ladd's Peter Van Hoek, nicknamed "Dutch".

    Both men are released on account of their sentences running out at once, Dutch after a stretch that saw a corrupt marshal plant evidence onto his person that saw him put away and McBain because of his amoral lifestyle which saw him put away, but during which his Yuma stretch has reformed him. The pair of them initially go their separate ways, McBain the once criminally minded man looking to start afresh with a different stance; Dutch the straight man incorrectly put inside and as a result, has exited the other end a spiteful and disenchanted man looking for some vengeance. Whilst inside, the film observes how well they work when thrust together in tense and relentless scenarios and must adapt to one another accordingly; the attempted suicide by way of drowning one inmate tries during a daily wash in a nearby river seeing the pair of them combine to garner a better outcome. On another occasion, a heated situation threatens to boil over when McBain is jumped upon by Dutch thus preventing him from killing a guard in anger. Their demonstrating, here, their ability to combine to some degree and compliment one another's characteristics or skills, precedes their working together later on in additionally problematic circumstances.

    Dutch's revenge-ridden plan is linked to an old mineshaft long since abandoned of which he is aware still harbours gold, an item which will cost that of the nearby town dearly out of their own ignorance. In the case of McBain, he dutifully fights a group of men effectively doubling up as those with misogynist tendencies, instilling that while he maintains his aggression and combative skills, he's broader minded now. Both men meet respective women, the Mexican girl McBain saved eventually filling in as his love interest whereas Dutch winds up meeting the already married Ada (Kelly). Plans formulate, McBain appears to come back on board when he cannot find work and the tension is cranked up when the crew Dutch eventually enlists through a corrupt local official named Lounsberry (Smith) are given a mere few days to execute the heist following an interaction with a lawman giving them a strict ultimatum to get out of town.

    At stake is the overbearing threat of returning to Yuma, those jibes riddled with hostilities and unpleasantness that the guards uttered upon the men's release still ringing in the ear as the reality of life on the inside in those opening sequence resonates. The love stories and promise of happier times born out of the obtaining of the gold act well as items utilised in creating a greater sense of urgency, McBain's Mexican partner effectively forced into going back to the life fraught with what came with it if everything does not succeed, whereas the film playfully toys as to whether Lounsberry is to be trusted as the job itself undergoes numerous hold ups and problematic situations which threaten to scupper the plans of a group of people we have come to be rather fond of. Director Daves keeps everything moving, balancing these plights and combining the slimmer; more softly spoken demeanour of Ladd – calculating and cold look of calculation almost always in his eye - with the brasher, larger and more buoyant Borgnine. The women are suitable alluring, indeed Dutch's first altercation with Ada sees her tower above him as he peers upwards whilst on his hands and knees in a corridor, whereas the characters of law and order appear in a less than glamorous light: coming across as corrupt, provocative and as bullies rather than upstanding; the bulk of it formulating into something quite impressive.
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    • Release date
      • December 14, 1958 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Geraubtes Gold
    • Filming locations
      • Old Tucson - 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
    • Production company
      • Arcola Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $1,436,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,006
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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