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.
Genre: Western
Stars: Don Barry, Lynn Merrick, William Haade, James Gillette, Dick Wessel, Tom Chatterton
Crew: Eliot Gibbons (Screenplay), Bennett Cohen (Screenplay), George Sherman (Director), Bennett Cohen (Story)
Country: United States of America
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Studio: Republic Pictures
Runtime: 56 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: May 24, 1941
IMDb: 10
Keywords:smuggling (contraband), escape
