Rose of Cimarron (film)

Rose of Cimarron is a 1952 Cinecolor Western produced by Edward L. Alperson for 20th Century Fox. Despite the title, it has nothing to do with Rose Dunn the actual Rose of Cimarron. The film is a revenge Western with a twistthe protagonist is a woman raised by the Cherokee avenging her parents who were murdered by whites.

Roses pleasant life ends when a sheriffs posse arrives at her adopted parents ranch. They are searching for three bank robbers and ask Lone Eagles advice of which route would take the bank robbers out of the badlands. Rose and her brother Willie know the area due to their trapping and guide the sheriff and his men there. As soon as they leave the three bank robbers come ouf of hiding and demand Lone Eagle and his wife sell or trade fresh horses to them. When they refuse they murder the both of them.Rose straps on a pair of six guns and a knife to avenge her parents. Though she has not witnessed the murders she can identify the horses the killers have stolen, a skewbald, a palomino and a sorrel. Arriving in town Rose demands the town marshal apprehend and hang the murderers. The marshal offers to perform his duty within the law but advises Rose that sometimes even the law can fail. Rose promises that if the law fails, she wont. ........

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