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• n  a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)

• Best supporting actor: Anthony Quinn for his desperado role in Viva Zapata! Best direction: John Ford for The Quiet Man (his fourth Oscar).
• Attacks ranged from small-scale robberies by lightly armed desperados to highly organized hijackings of giant vessels by teams of professionals.
• But I still felt like kind of a desperado.

• desperate criminal

News & Articles

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• ‘Battleship’ Director Peter Berg to Direct Mark Wahlberg in ‘American Desperado’
  Director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg - who first teamed up for 'Lone Survivor' - are set to reunite for true-life Mafia thriller 'American Desperado'.
  June 28, 2013 - Screen Rant
• Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg Team Up For Real Life Crime-Drama ‘American Desperado’
  Directors sure do love Mark Wahlberg. After making Pain and Gain with Michael Bay, the action-prone filmmaker brought the actor back to star in Transformers 4. In between, Wahlberg shot a movie called Lone Survivor with Peter Berg. Now, Berg’s asked the actor to team up with him once again. Wahlberg and Berg will make American Desperado, the real life [...]
  June 28, 2013 - /Film
• Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg Join American Desperado
  Paramount Pictures has set Mark Wahlberg to star in American Desperado , an adaptation of Jon Roberts and Evan Wright's "American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset."
  June 27, 2013 - Coming Soon

Quotes

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• Robert Rodriguez in Los Angeles Times
  It's the story from that script I had written way back then,Rodriguez said. "They had hired me to write a 'Predator' story while I was waiting to do 'Desperado' back in 1994. It was crazy, this thing I came up with. So then fast-forward to...
• Sam Moore in Ashland City Times
  I have got to tell you, I wanted to do 'Desperado,'Moore said good-naturedly. "You know, I saw the movie, and I started singing it for them, which I don't usually do. They said, 'Nice Sam, no.' I said, 'Well, tell me what you want me to...
• Frank Warren in guardian.co.uk
  I'm not some sort of desperado who wants to run a show at any cost,Warren added. "But there was a contract in place for Harrison to fight. Was I happy about it? No, not really. But I had to deliver the fight or I would have been in breach...