The Bravados

The Bravados is a 1958 western film color by DeLuxe directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name written by Frank ORourke.

In town, Douglas meets Josefa Velarde Joan Collins whom he met five years previously in New Orleans. She has been looking after her late fathers ranch. Douglas reveals he has a daughter Maria Garcia Fletcher. Other townspeople include Gus Steimmetz, his daughter Emma Kathleen Gallant and her fiance Barry Coe.The executioner, Simms, arrives, and aside from a brief drink with Douglas, seems to show little interest in socializing or advance planning for his task. Simms holds off until the town is at church, then, while pretending to evaluate the men he is to hang, stabs the sheriff in the back. The sheriff shoots and kills Simms, but the inmates leave the sheriff unconscious, escape and take Emma as a hostage. The wounded sheriff comes into the church with the news that the prisoners have escaped. A posse rides out immediately, but Douglas waits until morning. The posse is held up at a pass when one of the four fugitives stays behind to cover the pass. ........

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