Robin Hood of El Dorado (film)
Robin Hood of El Dorado | |
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Written by | Walter Noble Burns |
Screenplay by | William A. Wellman Joseph Calleia Melvin Levy |
Based on | The Robin Hood of El Dorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California's Age of Gold (1932), by Walter Noble Burns |
Produced by | John W. Considine Jr. |
Starring |
Warner Baxter Ann Loring Bruce Cabot |
Cinematography | Chester A. Lyons |
Edited by | Robert Kern |
Music by | Herbert Stothart |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
March 17, 1936 |
Running time |
85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Robin Hood of El Dorado is a 1936 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM. It stars Warner Baxter as real-life Mexican folk hero Joaquin Murrieta and Ann Loring as his love interest, with Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren and J. Carrol Naish as Murrietta's notorious partner, Three-Fingered Jack. The film is based on the life of Murrietta as the Robin Hood of Old California in 1850, a kind, gentle man who is driven to violence.
Plot summary
In 1848 in California, Mexican farmer Joaquin Murietta has become a criminal to avenge the rape and murder of his wife Rosita and lynching of his brother Jose at the hands of the Americans.
Cast
- Warner Baxter as Joaquin Murrietta
- Ann Loring as Juanita de la Cuesta
- Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren
- Margo as Rosita
- J. Carrol Naish as Three-Fingered Jack
- Soledad Jiménez as Madre Murrietta
- Carlos de Valdez as Jose Murrietta
- Eric Linden as Johnnie Warren
- Edgar Kennedy as Sheriff Judd
- Charles Trowbridge as Ramon de la Cuesta
- Harvey Stevens as Captain Osborne
- Ralph Remley as Judge Perkins
- George Regas as Tomas
- Harry Woods as Pete
- Francis McDonald as Pedro the Spy
- Kay Hughes as Louise
- Paul Hurst as Wilson
- Boothe Howard as Tablard