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...Hughes and his friend, Director Howard Hawks, who had helped him make Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
...appalled at Hughes's extravagance that he resigned. Hughes took over himself, set out as if he intended to outdo Hell's Angels, on which he spent $4,000,000, got back $8,000,000. When M.G.M. scooped him by rushing out a picture called Billy the Kid (1941), Hughes was merely goaded to fresh expenditures...
...starts with Gunman Doc (Walter Huston) arriving in a Western town to find his old friend Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) has gone straight, is now a sheriff. Doc reports that his favorite horse, Red, has been stolen, and the horse is discovered in th° possession of Billy the Kid. Doc's first impulse is to recover his horse. But he realizes Billy can beat him to the draw, and decides to bide his time...
...makes possible the arrival of Jane Russell. Her role: Doc's girl friend, a half-breed moron called Rio. When Billy is shot by Sheriff Garrett as he resists arrest for a killing, Doc comes to the rescue, takes Billy to Rio's home. Rio nurses the Kid back to health...
...backer of the cinema; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A physician, he began banking in 1908. His brother Amadeo founded the Bank of America; Attilio founded the East River National Bank in Manhattan, in the 1900s made loans to the nickelodeons, later gambled a fortune on The Kid, and-much later-backed Snow White...