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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 867

3 Bad Men

192692 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 92:14
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · John Ford · Public domain

Synopsis

Three outlaws rescue a young woman after bandits kill her father and decide to become her protectors. Joining the rush toward newly opened land, they try to arrange a secure future for her while confronting a corrupt sheriff. Their growing attachment to her changes what they are willing to risk as settlers and criminals converge on the same opportunity.

Cast

George O'Brien

Olive Borden

DirectorsJohn Ford

Historical context

Ford places the outlaws' unlikely guardianship within the spectacle of a land rush. The title's judgment becomes increasingly unstable as men outside the law behave more generously than the authority supposedly responsible for protecting the settlers.

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Photograph credit

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George O'Brien — Witzel · Public domain
Olive Borden — Cine Mundial; https://archive.org/stream/cinemundial14unse#page/n257/mode/1up · Public domain

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