raoul walsh do his usual yeoman like job of direct this mediocre western with joel mcrae a an outlaw try to make one last big haul by rob a train and dorothy malone a the young woman he think he love and and virginia mayo a the girl who be and a he finally realize and make for him . walsh also direct the original story and high sierra and with humphrey bogart and joan leslie and and ida lupino in the same role . colorado territory abscond with the story but leave john huston felicitous script behind a scrap . walsh have never direct a dull film and and this isn not dull . what it be and be simple mind . all of the subtlety and ambiguity that make the original so fine and so artful and be discard and instead the character and their motif be simplify to the extent that any particularly aware third grader can grasp them . what i mean be how should i put this . maybe i can make the point by give an example . in high sierra and bogart meet a simple and kind old man with a crippled grand daughter who need an operation . that the teen age joan leslie be talk about and and and man and she look good and though render sullen by her disability . bogart come into some loot and give much of it to joan leslie family so that she can have her operation . meanwhile and he fall in with ida lupino and a whore who have be kick around and love bogart and and will do anything for him . before adopt lupino and bogart tell her that there no place in his life for her . ( he think of settle down with joan leslie once she fix up . ) leslie operation be a success and from her recovery bed she shower bogart with gratitude but not love and a she explain to grampa . on his next visit and bogart find her drinking and jitterbug frenetically with a boyfriend . leslie be still grateful to bogart but she reject his possessiveness and and he leave her forever with ida lupino . huston and walsh fill these scene with love and ambiguity and a frantic hope and a hopeless remorse . in the remake and the joan leslie figure and dorothy malone and have nothing wrong with her except that she be greedy and treacherous . although mcrae give the family enough money to start their farm and malone try to alert the sheriff to macrae presence in order to collect the twenty thousand dollar reward . the ida lupino character and virginia mayo and actually have to have a physical fight with malone to keep her from rush out the door . there be no ambiguity and no sense of real life . malone be not a nice and if slightly empty head girl and who want to just enjoy her new freedom . she a bad girl . colorado territory be miscast and as well . joel mcrae be a good light comedian or light action star a nice guy . he not the tough ex con that bogart be . and virginia mayo be suppose to be part pueblo indian and though she look about as indian a jean harlow and the heavy makeup notwithstanding . one of the most touching ( because ground ) element of the original be that bogart have to give up the vivacious young joan leslie for the old and husky and use and and rather plain ida lupino . in the remake and the succulent virginia mayo of 1949 could give dorothy malone a run for her money any day . it like a high schooler have to give up his romance with the head of the girl cheer lead squad for the love of the prom queen . there not much of a sense of loss . i have pick out just one set of relationship to compare and but any viewer could easily spot a dozen more in which the original be superior to the remake . ( humphrey bogart and describe what a tommy gun sound like and tap his finger three time on the desk and say and tap tap tap . that all . nothing like that here . ) nice location shooting and but if you want to see a movie make for adult sensibility and rent the original . this remake be pretty water down .