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Desert Bandit (1941)
Directed by George Sherman
Overview
Bantam-weight western star Don “Red” Barry certainly deserved his designation as “The Cowboy Cagney” in Republic’s Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall’s “disgrace” was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.
Length 56 minutes
Actors
Don Barry | Lynn Merrick | William Haade | James Gillette | Dick Wessel | Tom Chatterton | Tom Ewell | Robert Strange | Charles R. Moore | Ernie Stanton | Charles King