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Colorado Territory (1949) was a Western - Film Noir Film directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Anthony Veiller.

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A Western set in the early days of the Wild West. Its antihero, outlaw Wes McQueen, has a long history of misdeeds and is unable to change. His love interest is an equally gutsy dance-hall girl, and together, on the run from an avenging posse, they try their best to remain alive and bullet-free.

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Quotes from Colorado Territory

Julie Ann Winslow: Did you ever think you'd like to travel a long way off... as far and as high as the moon... and stay there for good... forever... and forget all about things down here?
Wes McQueen: There's been plenty of times I wanted to get away from where I was.
Julie Ann Winslow: That far away?
Wes McQueen: Yeah, that far.
Julie Ann Winslow: You never talk about yourself. I don't know anything about you at all.
Wes McQueen: There's nothing to tell. Like you said, wanting to get far off from what you've been. This is far off.


Fred Winslow: My boy, never buy a foot of land more than five miles from home and not until you've seen it felt it, tasted it and smelled it. And at that, you might get bamboozled.


Colorado Carson: We don't want to turn back.
Brother Tomas: Then go forward my children. Follow the trail over the pass... beyond the Canyon of the Dead.


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Also directed by Raoul Walsh




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Also released in 1949




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