Desert Bandit (1941)
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.
Cast
Don 'Red' Barry
Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger
Lynn Merrick
Sue Martin
William Haade
Largo
Dick Wessel
Henchman Hawk
Tom Chatterton
Texas Ranger Captain Banning
Tom Ewell
Texas Ranger Ordway
Robert Strange
Hatfield
Charles R. Moore
T-Bone Jones
Ernie Stanton
Sheriff Warde
Charles King
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