Plot
A golden age dying and everything to build up once again. Through an urban journey, Roots and Fleur try to get some distance from one an other; to step across from passion to loneliness. Fleur, a young painter on the edge, is struggling to get her life back on track, whereas Roots seems to live carefree, showing no sign of affliction. Although he walks through the city for hours at night, like a stray dog.
Plot
Marshall Cowan and the mercenary Miller are both separately hunting the outlaw Catlow. During the Civil War both Cowan and the always smiling Catlow were comrades. Catlow helps Cowan, when he is wounded in the right leg by an arrow from the Apaches, despite Cowan hunting him. Catlow escapes with help of his gang. Catlow then robes a Mexican gold shipment, worth $ 2,000,000. Catlow flies with the stolen gold through the dangerous territory of the Apaches who besides of Miller, Cowan and the Mexican cavalry, are hunting for him and his gang of outlaws.
Keywords: abilene-kansas, ambush, apache, bandit, based-on-novel, bounty-hunter, bow-and-arrow, branding-iron, buttocks, canteen
Everyone Wants Catlow Dead and Buried
The Mexican cavalry wanted him murdered. The Apache nation wanted him massacred. Texas ranchers wanted him mangled and his only hope was a Marshal, who wanted him hanged.
Catlow: Now you keep those mules moving or we'll have those asses full of lead instead of gold.
Catlow: Ben, it's maverick gold. It belongs to anyone who can round it up.::Cowan: It don't belong to you. You can't steal from a man just because you don't know his name.
Miller: Now, how good are you on a horse?::Catlow: As good as the next man.::Miller: You ain't heard the conditions. You ride this bronc with your hands tied behind your back... and your neck in that noose!
Cowan: Well, you see, all I own is a couple of guns and a tin star and, of course, a beautiful new horse and saddle.::Christina: Is that how you judge the worth of a man? By how much he owns?
Merridew: You trust that injun?::Catlow: Well, they trust you.::Merridew: In that desert, I wouldn't trust no one. Especially me!
Catlow: You know, for a smart boy like you, Rio, you're just plain dumb.
Merridew: I sure hate to waste good liquor on a dead man.
Catlow: You still got that warrant?::Cowan: Two. One for jumping arrest. You stirred up some kind of a hornet's nest back there. And that Miller, he's packing a lot of heat.::Catlow: Think I can't handle him?::Cowan: Well, if somebody shoots you, let's keep it in the family. I'm gonna bring you in before he carries you in.::Catlow: There's a derringer looking at you says you don't. [Catlow has a gun underneath the table pointing at Cowan's belly]::Cowan: Oh? [ looks down at the table]::Catlow: I'd hate to shoot that badge off you just to prove it.::Cowan: Yeah, well, that's not where I wear it.::Catlow: [laughs loud] You know it would bust my heart to have to kill you.::Cowan: Yeah, well...::Catlow: Hey, why don't you ride with us. I need someone I can count on.::Cowan: Oh , Jed.::Catlow: The gold is just lying there!::Cowan: Gold?::Catlow: Yeah!::Cowan: Jed, are you gonna tangle with law the rest of your life? You have brawled and drunk and catted your way through every state in the West! I have gotton you out of jail so many times! When are you gonna learn?::Catlow: Ben, it's maverick gold! It belongs to anyone who can round it up!::Cowan: It don't belong to you! You can't steal from a man just because you don't know his name!::Catlow: Oh, well, I never thought you would.::Cowan: [both take a drink] Um... You wouldn't be just shooting off your mouth about that gun under there?::Catlow: Make one wrong move, and that's not all I'll be shooting off.
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Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Potomac State College in Keyser, West Virginia. He went on to complete his undergraduate B.A. degree at Yale University, summa cum laude, in History. The first African American to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the day after his undergraduate commencement, Gates set sail on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 for England and the University of Cambridge where he studied English literature at Clare College and obtained a PhD.
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