Bad Lands | |
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Directed by | Lew Landers |
Written by | Clarence Upson Young |
Produced by | Robert Sisk |
Starring | Robert Barrat Noah Beery Jr. Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams |
Cinematography | Russell Metty Frank Redman |
Edited by | George Hively |
Music by | Roy Webb |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $84,000 [2] |
Box office | $141,000 [2] |
Bad Lands is a 1939 Western film. Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol , with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert. [3]
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