Outlaws' Paradise
{{short description|1939 film by Sam Newfield}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Outlaws' Paradise
| image =
| caption =
| director = Sam Newfield
| producer = Sam Katzman
| writer = Basil Dickey
| starring = See below
| cinematography = Marcel Le Picard
| editing = Holbrook N. Todd
| studio = Victory Pictures Corporation
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1939|04|19}}
| runtime = 62 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Outlaws' Paradise is a 1939 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and was produced by Victory Pictures Corporations{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031769/|title=Outlaws' Paradise|date=April 19, 1939|website=IMDb}}
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.
Cast
- Tim McCoy as Captain William "Lightning Bill" Carson / Trigger Mallory
- Joan Barclay as Jessie Treadwell
- Ben Corbett as Magpie Magillicuddy
- Ted Adams as Slim Marsh
- Forrest Taylor as Henchman Eddie
- Bob Terry as Henchman Steve
- Donald Gallaher as Henchman Mort
- Dave O'Brien as Henchman Meggs
- Jack Mulhall as Prison Warden
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).
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
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0031769|title=Outlaws' Paradise}}
- {{Internet Archive film|id=outlaws_paradise|name=Outlaws' Paradise}}
- [https://archive.org/details/variety134-1939-04/page/n187/mode/1up/search/%22sam+katzman%22?q=%22sam+katzman%22 Review of film] at Variety
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Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:1939 Western (genre) films
Category:American Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by Sam Newfield
Category:Revisionist Western (genre) films
Category:English-language Western (genre) films
Category:Films produced by Sam Katzman
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