Outlaw Country (1949 film)
{{short description|1949 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Outlaw Country
| image = Outlaw-country.jpg
| caption = Original film poster
| director = Ray Taylor
| producer = Ron Ormond
| writer = Ron Ormond
Ira S. Webb
| based_on = story by Ormond and Webb
| narrator =
| starring = Lash LaRue
| music = Walter Greene
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio =
| distributor = Screen Guild Productions
| released = {{Film date|1949|01|07}}
| runtime = 72 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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Outlaw Country is a 1949 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Lash LaRue and Al "Fuzzy" St. John{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|1305815494}} |title=OUTLAW COUNTRY |journal=Monthly Film Bulletin |location=London |volume=18 |issue=204 |date=1 January 1951 |page=235 }} in a dual role as a U.S. Marshal and his outlaw brother known as the "Frontier Phantom". The film, shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch led to a 1952 sequel The Frontier Phantom.
Plot
Between the United States and Mexican frontier is a small area that is under the jurisdiction of neither nation. Jim McCord charges outlaws on the run money to stay in his domain called "Robbers Roost". McCord has also kidnapped a United States Treasury engraver and his daughter in order to create counterfeit US dollars. US Marshal Clark and his Mexican counterpart Señor Cordova recruit Marshal Lash La Rue and Deputy Fuzzy Q. Jones to "take the law into their own hands" to put the outlaws out of business. One of the outlaws is Lash's twin brother, known as the Frontier Phantom.
Meanwhile, Fuzzy studies to become a hypnotist and a wizard.
Cast
- Lash La Rue as Marshal Lash La Rue / The Frontier Phantom
- Al St. John as Fuzzy Q. Jones
- Dan White as Jim McCord
- John Merton as Marshal Clark
- Ted Adams as Frank Evans
- Nancy Saunders as Jane Evans
- Lee Roberts as Buck
- Bob Duncan as Deputy
- Sandy Sanders as Deputy
- Max Terhune Jr. as Henchman
- Dee Cooper as Jeff
- House Peters Jr. as Cal Saunders
- Jack O'Shea as Señor Cordova
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0041723}}
- [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85998/outlaw-country Outlaw Country] at TCMDB
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Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:1949 Western (genre) films
Category:Lippert Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Ray Taylor
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
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