The Desperados Are in Town

Nov 1, 1956

1h 13m

★ 0.0

Spraying Its Streets With Lead! Lighting Its Skies With Gunfire!

Overview

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his family's Texas dirt farm and becomes an outlaw. He is advised by one of the desperadoes to return home. The boy does, and with hard work, makes the farm successful. Harvest time rolls around. He is just about to celebrate when the outlaws ride up and force him to help them pull a local bank job. He refuses and kills the gang leader and his brother. Meanwhile, the boy's past is revealed to the town banker. Seeing that he truly has gone straight, the banker forgives him. The boy marries and lives with his lovely bride upon his land.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Regal Films

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Cast

Lonny Kesh

Robert Arthur

Alice Rutherford (as Kathy Nolan)

Kathleen Nolan

Jud Collins

Rhys Williams

Frank Banner

Rhodes Reason

Dock Lapman / Mr. Brown

Dave O'Brien

Big Tobe Lapman

Kelly Thordsen

Jane Kesh

Mae Clarke

Deputy Sheriff Mike Broome

Robert Osterloh

Tom Kesh

William Challee

Hattie

Carol Kelly

Carl Branch

Frank Sully

Mr. Rutherford

Morris Ankrum

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