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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
Robin Hood of El Dorado is a 1936 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM.It stars Warner Baxter as real-life Mexican folk hero, Joaquin Murrieta, and Ann Loring as his love interest, with Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren and J. Carrol Naish as Murrietta's notorious partner, Three-Fingered Jack.
Ricardo Montalbán as Joaquin Murrieta (as Ricardo Montalban) Slim Pickens as Three-Finger Jack; Roosevelt Grier as Morgan; Jim McMullan as Arkansaw; Earl Holliman as Shad Clay; Ina Balin as Otilia Ruiz; Robert J. Wilke as Gant; Miriam Colon as Claudina, Otilia's Servant; Anthony Caruso as Don Miguel Ruiz; Eddra Gale as Dolores the Bartender
The Mask of Zorro (1998) The film features a fictionalized depiction of the encounter between the gang and a Mexican posse led by Captain Harrison Love. Joaquin Murrieta, Three-Fingered Jack and Murrieta's fictional brother Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) are three bandits who are confronted by Captain Love and his posse.
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Based on real life events - Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife killed by bandits, Murieta takes out his vengeance by forming a gang of outlaws who rob the countryside.
Junior Santiago, 10, is among the new generation of participants in the 45-year-old Joaquín Murrieta Horse Pilgrimage. Young trick roper is following in the footsteps of Joaquín Murrieta’s ...
The dime novel, intended for the general public, is an example of the literature of sensation and an early example of "borderland literature." [6] [7] The genre is believed to express the struggles of a person of mixed race or ethnicity to find his or her place while stuck between two very different worlds. [8]