Robin Hood of El Dorado (film)

Robin Hood of El Dorado
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