Name: The Desperadoes
Genre: Western
Released: 1959-01-06
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 6
Cast: Will Hutchins, Jack Kruschen, Anthony George

While visiting his friend Padre John at a mission school in Texas, Sugarfoot learns of a plot to kill Mexico's President Benito Juarez. He, Padre and a woman - who desperately wants to meet Juarez so she can persuade him to let her husband go - are kept prisoner.

Colonel Winslow (Richard Garland) intends to assassinate Juarez from a church bell tower as the stage contains the president whizzes by - but things get worse for Sugarfoot and his fellow captives when Winslow's subordinate Bolt takes over command and goes totally dictator mode and is willingly to kill anyone cold-bloodedly.

A fairly tense episode with a compact plot fleeting to one imminent danger to the next - the finale is quite exciting and tense with Brewster fighting a nut job shooter from a bell tower as well as trying to stop Bolt. Jack Kruschen is very good as the maniacal Bolt.

The Western genre features stories set primarily in the 19th-century American Old West and often depict the rugged frontier life, exploring themes of individualism, justice, morality, and the clash between civilization and the untamed wilderness. The genre has its roots in the historical context of westward expansion and the challenges faced by pioneers, settlers, outlaws, and lawmen.

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Tom discovers a plot to assassinate Mexican President Benito Juarez.

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