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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.
The Five Joaquins were a mid-19th-century outlaw gang in California which, according to the state legislature, was led by five men, identified as follows: "... the five Joaquins, whose names are Joaquin Murrieta, Joaquin Ocomorenia, Joaquin Valenzuela, Joaquin Botellier, and Joaquin Carrillo, and their banded associates."
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.
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 capture of Murrieta's right-hand man Three-Fingered Jack by Love was also historical; however, the real person was a Mexican named Manuel Garcia rather than an Anglo-American. [52] As he did in the movie, the actual Harry Love preserved both Murrieta's head and Jack's hand in large, alcohol-filled glass jars.
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]
The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta (Russian: Звезда и смерть Хоакина Мурьеты) is a 1982 Soviet musical drama film directed by Vladimir Grammatikov. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Plot