The Last Bandit

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The Last Bandit
Poster - Last Bandit, The 01.jpg
Directed by Joseph Kane
Written byThames Williamson
Luci Ward
Jack Natteford
Based on The Great Train Robbery
1941 film
by Joseph Kane
Produced byJoseph Kane
Starring Wild Bill Elliott
Lorna Gray
Forrest Tucker
Andy Devine
Cinematography Jack A. Marta
Edited by Arthur Roberts
Music byR. Dale Butts
Color process Trucolor
Production
company
Republic Pictures
Distributed by Republic Pictures
Release date
  • February 25, 1949 (1949-02-25)
Running time
80 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 [1] with a larger budget and using the studio's Trucolor process. The film was remade again in 1952 as South Pacific Trail .

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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.

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References

  1. Fetrow p.263

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