The Badlanders

The Badlanders 1958 is a western caper film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Alan Ladd and Ernest Borgnine. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story was given an 1898 setting by screenwriter Richard Collins. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950s The Asphalt Jungle.

The two men head separately to the town of Prescott, where neither is welcome. The marshal, whom Van Hoek accuses of framing him, orders him to leave town on the next stagecoach, at sundown the next day. At the hotel, the Dutchman meets guest Ada Winton Claire Kelly, the lonely mistress of Cyril Lounsberry Kent Smith.McBain rescues a Mexican woman, Anita Katy Jurado, when men accost her on the street. Though Leslie Adam Williams, the deputy, saves McBains life in the ensuing fight, he gives McBain the same deadline to leave, even though McBains folks settled the township. A grateful Anita invites McBain to stay in her place, and the two are attracted to each other. ........

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