Desert Bandit

Desert Bandit

56 mins | Western | May 24, 1941

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.

Desert Bandit

56 mins | Western | May 24, 1941

Desert Bandit
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.
Producers Republic Pictures
Original title Desert Bandit
Directors George Sherman
Writers Eliot Gibbons, Bennett Cohen

Cast

Don Barry

as Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger

Lynn Merrick

as Sue Martin

William Haade

as Largo

James Gillette

as Tim Martin

Dick Wessel

as Henchman Hawk

Tom Chatterton

as Texas Ranger Captain Banning

Tom Ewell

as Texas Ranger Ordway

Robert Strange

as Hatfield

Charles R. Moore

as T-Bone Jones

Ernie Stanton

as Sheriff Warde

Charles King

as Dying Henchman at Wagon (uncredited)