Four Faces West
Four Faces West is a 1948 Western film starring Joel McCrea, his reallife wife Frances Dee, and Charles Bickford. It is based on the novel Pas por aqu by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Its plot concerns a downonhisluck cowboy who robs a bank.
When they reach an Alamogordo saloon that Marquezs cousins run, a cattleman named Burnett is willing to take on McEwen as a hired hand. Garrett and deputy Clint Waters come to town, so McEwen must leave but offers her an engagement ring. Fay rides along, but ends up separated and captured by Garretts men.After crossing the desert with difficulty, McEwen comes across a Mexican rancher named Florencios family that is ill. He stays to help and starts a fire to signal the lawmen, needing their assistance. Marquez gets there along with Garrett and Fay, but because Florencio is another relative of his, pretends that McEwen is a total stranger. ........
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