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1949 film by Joseph Kane

The Last Bandit
Directed byJoseph Kane
Written byThames Williamson
Luci Ward
Jack Natteford
Based onThe Great Train Robbery
1941 film
by Joseph Kane
Produced byJoseph Kane
StarringWild Bill Elliott
Lorna Gray
Forrest Tucker
Andy Devine
CinematographyJack A. Marta
Edited byArthur Roberts
Music byR. Dale Butts
Color processTrucolor
Production
company
Republic Pictures
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • February 25, 1949 (1949-02-25)
Running time80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Last Bandit is a 1949 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Bill Elliott, Lorna Gray and Forrest Tucker. It was a remake by Republic Pictures of the 1941 film The Great Train Robbery with a larger budget and using the studio's Trucolor process. The film was remade again in 1952 as South Pacific Trail.

Plot

Frank Norris, now working as a railroad detective, is implicated in an attempt by his former outlaw colleagues to rob a series of gold shipments.

Partial cast

References

  1. Fetrow p.263

Bibliography

  • Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.

External links

Films directed by Joseph Kane


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