Hell's Heroes
The All-Talking Outdoor Classic
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12/27/1929Runtime
68 minsGenres
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Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
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Three hardened criminals thrust into unexpected fatherhood find their cynicism tested by the moral weight of caring for an infant in the unforgiving desert. A pre-code western that finds grace and humanity in the most unlikely of guardians.
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Charles Bickford
Bob Sangster
Raymond Hatton
Tom 'Barbwire' Gibbons
Fred Kohler
'Wild Bill' Kearney
Fritzi Ridgeway
Mother
Joe De La Cruz
José
Walter James
Sheriff
Maria Alba
Carmelita
Buck Connors
Parson Jones
Jim Corey
Barfly (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Choir Member (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Frank Edwards (uncredited)
John Huston
Church Member (uncredited)
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