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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1218

Hell's Heroes

192968 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 67:42
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · William Wyler · Public domain

Synopsis

Three bank robbers flee into the desert and find a woman who dies after giving birth. They promise to take her infant to its father, only to learn that he was killed in their robbery. The return journey demands a choice between the loot, their own survival and the child they have made an orphan.

Cast

Charles Bickford

Raymond Hatton

Fred Kohler

DirectorsWilliam Wyler

Behind the scenes

William Wyler's first sound production adapts Peter B. Kyne's The Three Godfathers. Filming in Bodie, California, gives the fictional town a setting drawn from an actual Western settlement.

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Photograph credit

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Charles Bickford — MCA-TV; ebay item front back · Public domain
Raymond Hatton — Unknown author · Public domain
Fred Kohler — Unknown author; ebay · Public domain

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