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El Paso (1949) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1949 · 103 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Lewis R. Foster
- Starring
- Eduardo Noriega, Irving Bacon, Sterling Hayden, Chief Yowlachie, Steven Geray, Dick Foran
Ex‑Confederate officer Clay Fletcher travels to El Paso at his father’s request to obtain Judge Jeffers’ signature for a legal document, hoping to reunite with former love Susan Jeffers. He discovers the once‑respectable judge reduced to a drunken stooge for magnate Bert Donner and Sheriff La Farge. As Clay begins to clean up the town, he abandons the law and adopts vigilante justice.
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