The Rough, Tough West

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The Rough, Tough West
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Directed by Ray Nazarro
Written by Barry Shipman
Produced by Colbert Clark
Starring Charles Starrett
Carolina Cotton
Jock Mahoney
Cinematography Fayte M. Browne
Edited by Paul Borofsky
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 15, 1952 (1952-06-15)
Running time
54 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Rough, Tough West is a 1952 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Charles Starrett, Jock Mahoney and Carolina Cotton. This was the sixty-third of 65 films in the Durango Kid series. [1] At this late date the series relied on cost-cutting measures to stay within a low budget, so this film contains footage from older Starrett westerns.

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Plot

The Durango Kid arrives in a mining town in search of an old friend, only to find the man is now running the town and has become corrupt, which brings him to disguise himself as a masked stranger while exposing his old pal as the felon he is.

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References

  1. Blottner, Gene (2011). "The Durango Kid". Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. ISBN   9780786486724.

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