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Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), a series of four films with Umberto Lenzi beginning with Orgasmo (1969) and ending with Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973). Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. Through the 1990s Baker had guest roles in several television series, such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She formally retired from acting in 2003.
A trio of friends meet years later on their way to Cedar City. One of the emigrants, Sam Probst, adapts very quickly in the new conditions of the free city. He and his friends Bill Hershey and Zach Blaisdell do odd jobs in underworld for Burt Cowington, and one delivery of bootleg liquor ends up in their hands with stolen money. They are joined by Harvey Taylor, who lost his general store, and John Wells, who is an explosives specialist and has worked with various gangs throughout the wild west. Together they rob JP Morgan's bank and it nets them 6 million. The whole group regularly visited Probst's mother, Eve. Probst will build his own liqueur empire with the money taken. However, with power and wealth, so does his danger. Burt Cowington and his ten men are after them, also the Pinkertons and lawmen. Eve is like a mom to them all, her death hit them hard. Bill falls in love with Sue's widowed mother, whom he supports financially. Zach subsidizes the local school and orphanage with the money. Harvey was giving money to a poor farming family, the Winstons. John gave money to doctor. Probst and his men try to help the citizens of Cedar City. The Probsts controlled the underworld, when someone wanted to complain to the sheriff, the Probsts were there first and the sheriff drank their whiskey. Spoiler: At the end of the film there is a passage where serious and sad music plays and during it the whole five are arrested in various places and shot, the era of the Probst boys ends.
