# Looking for the name of a movie

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 14, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305 "2014-10-14T15:07:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305/1 "2014-10-14T15:07:09Z")

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I first saw this film a few years ago. I’m including as much info as I can remember here:

I remember this movie was black and white and made around 1948 to 1952. I thought it may have stared Robert Mitchum or someone similar to him. It was a Western and opened  
with the hero in a small jail. An older lady pretends to be his relative (maybe his aunt) and drops off a package with maybe a cake and file or some blanket that can be  
unraveled and he uses the thread to espcape. He meets a man with a very strange name. Sounds like a Swedish or Norwegian name. Maybe something like “Plooten Lumset”. That is  
not it but it just sounds as weird as that. I seem to remember the movie ends with the hero riding out to some remote location where he is killed by a bunch of armed men.

The only other thing I seem to remember is that the villian of the movie turned out to be this same man with the strange sounding name and the climax of the film involves the hero and villian having a gunfight on top of a moving train. I wish I had more info for you but sadly, I don’t.

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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305/2 "2014-10-14T18:09:32Z")

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Could it be [Blood on the Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040175/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_98)?

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305/3 "2014-10-15T02:30:21Z")

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There aren’t a whole lot of Western movies where the hero dies in the end, AFAICT, and none of the famous ones sound like your plot. Could you be mixing up plot elements from different movies?

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**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305/4 "2014-10-18T17:31:15Z")

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It sounds like Blood On the Moon to me as well, however the ending was, as I recall, somewhat different. That was definitely Robert Mitchum and it has an “underground” reputation as a western “noir”.

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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-the-name-of-a-movie/701305/5 "2014-10-19T14:44:21Z")

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It was Colorado Territory starring Joel McCrea.

I apologize very much for taking so long to return to this thread. I got the answer from some other forum and I’m so sorry that I forgot I had this open thread here.

Please accept my apologies.