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* DisabledLoveInterest: Velma has a clubbed foot. While Roy pays for her operation, she already has a fiancee.

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%%* AntiHero: Roy Earle.

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%%* AntiHero: Roy Earle.Earle may be a sharp-tongued armed robber [[spoiler: and eventual murderer]], but he's quite sympathetic and intends to go straight and head home after the hotel job.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Babe is a short-tempered jerk who abuses Marie, so it's hard to feel bad when he dies in a fiery crash.]]


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* TheStoolPigeon: Roy gives a veiled threat to Mendoza warning him against squealing, as the last time someone on one of his heists squealed, Roy riddled them with bullets. [[spoiler: Mendoza ends up telling the cops everything anyway to save his own skin.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everybody dies except Rodriguez, who talked, and Marie, who's going to prison or possibly an asylum, as she appears to be having a nervous breakdown at the end.]]

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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everybody dies except Rodriguez, Mendoza, who talked, and Marie, who's going to prison or possibly an asylum, as she appears to be having a nervous breakdown at the end.]]



%%* UncleTomFoolery: Healy.

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%%* UncleTomFoolery: Healy.Algernon.
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Remade by Walsh as the 1949 {{Western}} ''Colorado Territory'' (starring Creator/JoelMcCrea and Virginia Mayo), and by Stuart Heisler as the 1955 film ''I Died a Thousand Times'' (starring Creator/JackPalance and Creator/ShelleyWinters).

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[[SelfRemake Remade by Walsh Walsh]] as the 1949 {{Western}} ''Colorado Territory'' (starring Creator/JoelMcCrea and Virginia Mayo), and by Stuart Heisler as the 1955 film ''I Died a Thousand Times'' (starring Creator/JackPalance and Creator/ShelleyWinters).
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Bogart stars as robber Roy Earle, pardoned six years into a life sentence through the machinations of ailing crime lord Big Mac. Earle has been broken out to do one last heist, alongside two young toughs, who disgust him with their lack of discipline and smarts. Earle finds himself out of place in a world that is changing fast. His failed romance with a young Dust Bowl refugee convinces him that he has no place in honest life, but after the heist goes bad, he finds loyal companionship in the form of Marie (Creator/IdaLupino), a dancehall girl from Los Angeles.

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Bogart stars as robber Roy Earle, pardoned six years into a life sentence through the machinations of ailing crime lord Big Mac. Earle has been broken out to do one last heist, alongside two young toughs, who disgust him with their lack of discipline and smarts. Earle finds himself out of place in a world that is changing fast. His failed romance with a young Dust Bowl refugee convinces him that he has no place in honest life, but after the heist goes bad, he finds loyal companionship in the form of Marie (Creator/IdaLupino), a dancehall girl from Los Angeles.
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