Nov 27
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| Taglines: | 1: Born too late for their own times. Uncommonly significant for ours. 2: Nine men who came too late and stayed too long… 3: Suddenly a new West has emerged. Suddenly it was sundown for nine men. Suddenly their day was over. Suddenly the sky was bathed in blood. 4: The land had changed. They hadn’t. The earth had cooled. They couldn’t. 5: They came too late and stayed too long. 6: Unchanged men in a changing land. Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time. |
| Plot Summary: | A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop’s reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop’s gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General “Mapache” Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them. |