Outlaws' Paradise

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Outlaws' Paradise
Directed by Sam Newfield
Written by Basil Dickey
Produced by Sam Katzman
StarringSee below
Cinematography Marcel Le Picard
Edited by Holbrook N. Todd
Production
company
Victory Pictures Corporation
Release date
  • April 19, 1939 (1939-04-19)
Running time
62 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Outlaws' Paradise is a 1939 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and was produced by Victory Pictures Corporations [1]

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Plot

Gang leader Trigger Mallory is about to be released from prison. When Bill Carson notices the resemblance, he gets the Warden to hold Mallory and he assumes his identity. He fools both the gang and Trigger's girlfriend Jessie as he sets them up to be captured. But Trigger escapes from prison and returns to expose the hoax and Bill is made a prisoner. [1]

Cast

Broadcast

The film's earliest documented telecasts took place in Philadelphia Thursday 11 August 1949 on Frontier Playhouse on WPTZ (Channel 3), in Cincinnati Saturday 16 October 1949 on WLW-T (Channel 4), and in Los Angeles Saturday 28 October 1949 on KFI (Channel 9). [1]

Reception

Martin Hafer suggests "Despite McCoy's fun performance, clichés and poor writing keep this one from being among his best."

Follow-up film

Six Gun Theater: Outlaw's Paradise was released on June 3, 2015, based on the original Outlaw's Paradise

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Outlaws' Paradise". IMDb. April 19, 1939.