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...failed to rob the little Bank of Middleton at Middleton (pop. 350), Tenn. Last week, when a customer slipped out to report that a fourth holdup was in progress, Middleton's citizens reached for their guns. That was just too bad for a 36-year-old Memphis desperado named Robert Henry Bondurant...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...
...Gunfighter (20th Century-Fox) is a maverick western: it spends most of its time indoors. Its hero (Gregory Peck) is a celebrated desperado who wants to go straight. With a limited amount of gunfire and hard riding, the movie makes every shot count, manages to fill a barroom interior with more suspense than most horse operas get from all outdoors...
...before I draw," simled the Great Desperado...
...same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...