The Desperadoes

May. 25,1943      NR
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.

Randolph Scott as  Sheriff Steve Upton
Claire Trevor as  Countess Maletta
Glenn Ford as  Cheyenne Rogers
Evelyn Keyes as  Allison McLeod
Edgar Buchanan as  Uncle Willie McLeod
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as  Nitro Rankin
Raymond Walburn as  Judge Cameron
Porter Hall as  Banker Clanton
Bernard Nedell as  Jack Lester
Joan Woodbury as  Sundown

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