TO HELL YOU RIDE
P R O D U C T I O N S TM
Revealing Western Legend
In June of 1889, a charismatic horse rustler from Utah (Robert Parker) recruits a young bronco buster from Pennsylvania (Harry Longabaugh) to join his gang of bold outlaws (Tom McCarty~Matt Warner) and rob the San Miguel Valley Bank in Telluride, Colorado.
To Hell You Ride ~ The San Miguel Valley Bank Robbery
Harry Longabaugh is returning to his family ranch in Southwest Colorado after eighteen long months in the Sundance, Wyoming jail. But his journey is altered by an old friend and mentor - the rustler Robert Parker. They renew their association with a raucous visit to the booming town of Silverton, where they pose for a fateful photograph and find suitable accommodations with the lovely Madame Kate, whose rickety bordello they totally destroy.
Afterwards they head for McElmo Canyon, where Tom McCarty and Matt Warner are waiting with big plans for another major heist. This time the scheme will require horse relays and four men, bringing in Harry as handler. But first they make a peace offering to the Ute Nation and Harry visits his cousin George at their struggling family ranch.
In a few days the outlaws will enter Telluride and make off with over $30,000 in gold and currency. The relays get them out of the San Juan Mountains but soon posse after posse and every nasty bounty hunter in the four corners region is on their trail.
Based on contemporaneous accounts and insight offered by credentialed authors, To Hell You Ride draws as well from Butch & Sundance ~ The New Evidence. This is an 1889 cabinet card photo of Robert Parker and Harry Longabaugh posing in a tent for the travelling photographer Oscar Dowe.
The full story can now be told about the huge scar waving across Butch Cassidy's left cheek and whether the Sundance Kid was the fourth robber at Telluride. Many self-proclaimed experts have attacked The New Evidence, but they cannot talk about that big scar or refute the published proof.
Here then is what we know about this infamous crime and the startling events that launched the careers- and damned the lives - of four legendary cowboys. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has many crass imitators today, all eagerly exhuming Newman and Redford for yet another escapade. But To Hell You Ride is the official adaptation that brings back the actual outlaws and their times. This production will redefine the western genre.
Butch & Sundance ~ The New Evidence
Published back in 2016, Butch & Sundance ~ The New Evidence, chronicles the discovery and authentication of a deluxe 1889 cabinet card photo depicting the famous duo posing inside a canvas tent. The travelling photographer who shot the photo and printed it in albumen is Oscar Dowe, youngest brother of the famed San Francisco family of shutterbugs. That year his kin are working his studios while he tours his wagon across the western heartland, providing artistic portraiture for the mining boom towns recently built upon formerly native lands.
Robert Leroy Parker (seated) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (standing) are shown posing in the style of prideful western associates from that time. Parker has the money roll and is dressed in a manner resembling the 1900 Fort Worth Five photo, while Longabaugh may be sporting the same jacket he had on leaving the Sundance jail. The outlaws are only 23 and 22 years old, respectively, and likely met several years earlier.
Harry Longabaugh ~ The Sundance Kid
This is Harry Alonzo Longabaugh in June of 1889 at age 22 or maybe 21. He is shaggy, still with a straight nose and baby fat beneath the chin. An old storage stain obscures his right ear.
The Pennsylvania canal boy journeyed to Southwest Colorado with his cousin George seeking his own western adventure and a little breathing room. Meeting up with the charismatic Robert Parker and all his rustling pals provided more than enough excitement - and bad habits - to get Harry tossed into a Sundance, Wyoming jail cell for eighteen grueling months.
Now Harry is free and meeting Parker, who with Matt Warner and Tom McCarty is already preparing "a raid of some sort." Robert and Harry will get their photograph taken in Silverton by Oscar Dowe then rendezvous with McCarty and Warner. Harry will also visit George at the ranch, only to witness their struggles in his absence. He will soon hold the horses and provide cover while his crew robs the San Miguel Valley Bank.
Robert Leroy Parker ~ Butch Cassidy
This is Robert Leroy Parker in June of 1889, 23 years of age at that time. The full scar, the wiry mustache, and the box jaw are all evident. The nose is still straight here, but will be flattened later by the desperate posse that sends him to Laramie prison.
He sits in his youth as a rising member of a flourishing bandit fraternity. Well dressed and flush with cash from the recent robbing of the Denver First National Bank, he is on a mission. The Utah rustler will enlist a new sidekick, Harry Longabaugh, fresh out of Sundance jail, and set the stage for their next heist.
Robert will gladly steal from those arrogant mine owners and county powers who dismiss him as common labor. But first he offers them whiskey in fancy saloons, posing as a successful investor and his trusted assayor. Soon he and his associates will rob the Telluride bank and be riding for their lives. This is the cowboy that historians and movie fans have been chasing.
Hollywood Archetype ~ Famous Characters
Wait a minute! This is not Paul Newman! Nor Robert Redford! No - this is actually Robert Parker and really Harry Longabaugh.
Hollywood crystalized Butch & Sundance from the personas of Newman & Redford and has been typecasting them ever since. William Goldman typed out Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid knowing that they must become star-driven characterizations.
But with The New Evidence factually informing To Hell You Ride, viewers will be properly introduced to these famous outlaws. Plus, Tom McCarty and Matt Warner, Photographer Oscar Dowe, Banker LL Nunn, and rollicking Southwest Colorado from 1889.
Audiences worldwide want an official adaptation and not more predictable archetype. To Hell You Ride ~ The San Miguel Valley Bank Robbery recollects a period that cannot be stamped out by cookie cutter. This will be an experience out of time, a western so authentic it might be presented in stunning black and white.
Distributing ~ Marketing ~ Profiting
The blockbuster potential of this amazing film is obvious. It shall be financed and distributed and marketed worldwide by the company who wants to register an all-time classic western adventure.
Categorical trademarking is well underway and the published photographic likenesses of youthful Robert Parker and Harry Longabaugh are legally established and copyrighted. Such a project could certainly generate enormous revenue streams on release and related merchandising and licensing.
What will happen to the profits made from this movie? Profits will go to the studio and investors. To Hell You Ride Productions shall be Associate Producer, a contracted creative participant, and a compensated proprietary characters contributor.
To Hell you Ride Productions will share licensing and merchandising avenues with this company. Each will benefit, including due consideration for descendants of the Ute Nation, who inhabited all of Southwest Colorado and were brutally expelled.
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The copyrighted screenplay details a two hour feature film in four acts across 140 pages. Historic Silverton and Telluride will be extensively depicted and over a dozen historical persons will be presented, including the two main characters and their outlaw associates. If you are interested in the development and/or funding and/or production please contact:
