Bad Lands (1939 film)

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Bad Lands
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Lew Landers
Written by	Clarence Upson Young
Based on	The Lost Patrol 1934 film by John Ford
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
Release date	August 28, 1939 (1939-08-28)^[1]
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 directed by Lew Landers. Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol , with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert.^[3]

Plot
Cast
Reception
References
External links

Plot

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In 1875, a posse headed by sheriff Sheriff Bill Cummings is held at bay by Apache warriors. The posse members are picked off, one by one, until only the Sheriff is left.

Cast

Robert Barrat as Sheriff Bill Cummings
Noah Beery Jr. as Chick Lyman
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Billy Sweet
Andy Clyde as Cluff
Paul Hurst as Curly Tom
Robert Coote as Eaton
Addison Richards as Rayburn
Douglas Walton as Bob Mulford
Francis Ford as Charlie Garth
Francis McDonald as Manuel Lopez

Reception

According to the RKO records the film had a loss of $6,000.^[2]

References

↑ "Bad Lands: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
1 2 3 Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57.
↑ "Bad Lands (1939) - Lew Landers | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".

External links

Bad Lands at IMDb
Bad Lands at AllMovie
Bad Lands at the TCM Movie Database
Bad Lands at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

v t e Films directed by Lew Landers
1930s	The Vanishing Shadow (1934) The Red Rider (1934) Tailspin Tommy (1934) Rustlers of Red Dog (1935) The Call of the Savage (1935) The Raven (1935) Stormy (1935) Parole! (1936) Night Waitress (1936) You Can't Buy Luck (1937) Border Cafe (1937) Danger Patrol (1937) Flight from Glory (1937) The Man Who Found Himself (1937) They Wanted to Marry (1937) Crashing Hollywood (1938) Condemned Women (1938) Law of the Underworld (1938) Blind Alibi (1938) Smashing the Rackets (1938) Annabel Takes a Tour (1938) Double Danger (1938) Twelve Crowded Hours (1939) Bad Lands (1939) Fixer Dugan (1939) The Girl and the Gambler (1939) Conspiracy (1939)
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