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Bad Man of Deadwood (1941)

1941 · Feature film · 52 min · dir. Joseph Kane

  • Action
  • Western

Synopsis

Deadwood is controlled by Ripper's gang that has rendered the Sheriff and the Judge powerless. When Gabby's medicine show featuring Roy arrives they are quickly run out. They join the Laramie Gap gang that is fighting Ripper and when Gabby's inheritance money is stolen they rob the stage to get it back, Getting the money and the names assigned to it, Roy hopes this evidence will enable the Judge to bring law and order to Deadwood.

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Details

Director
Joseph Kane
Writer
James R. Webb
Composer
Mort Glickman
Cinematography
William Nobles
Studio
Republic Pictures
Released
1941-09-05
Running time
52 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · A Slam Bang Early Roy Rogers pic. · bobsluckycat · 2010-05-01

10,700 downloads can't be wrong. This is an early Roy Rogers film set before his modern times musical westerns. It is vintage Rogers, with the best supporting cast. Stand-outs include, of course Gabby Hayes, but Sally Payne, Jay Novello, and a newcomer Henry Brandon are just fine, and entire Republic roster is in this as well, or so it seems. Directed by Joe Kane, with the usual great Republic production values. Plenty of action and plenty of plot. A minor quible or two, this is a 16mm TV print and is very old and a little fuzzy and the night lense used in about a third of the picture comes…

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