Salty O'Rourke
Salty owes money to Doc Baxter, and he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Br...
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"Salty O'Rourke was a different Alan Ladd performance. Here he was a Steve McQueen type anti-hero , a character I never saw before from Ladd. I have seen him as villains like in This Gun For Hire, and usually he is an action hero but not here. He actually does well with the role. The best one in the movie was Gail Russell ( Barbara Brooks ( or as Ladd called her"Brooksie.")). She is the "Good Girl" here and like in Angel In The Badman, where she reforms John Wayne, she does the same here. Oddly enough like Quirt Evens in Angel and The Badman, Salty's best friend is..."
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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 26, 1945 with Alan Ladd and William Demarest reprising their film roles.
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Salty owes money to Doc Baxter, and he and his pal Smitty have one month to pay up. They get a race horse and a disbarred jockey, Johnny Cates, who must fake his identity to race. Johnny and Salty both fall in love with Barbara Br...