The Badlanders

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The Badlanders
Directed by Delmer Daves
Written by Richard Collins
based upon the novel The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett
Starring Alan Ladd
Ernest Borgnine
Katey Jurado
Release date(s) 1958
Language English

The Badlanders (1958). Directed by Delmer Daves. Written by Richard Collins, based upon the novel The Asphalt Jungle by W.R. Burnett. Starring Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine.

[edit] Plot Synopsis

Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, Peter Van Hoek (Alan Ladd), called "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 (Ernest Borgnine), is just trying to go straight, what proves difficult when the Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme.

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