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17 July 1948 (USA) moreTagline:
THE TEN WORST KILLERS OF THE UNTAMED WEST...and the Lady they called 'Cheyenne'...on a rampage of murder and terror in the blood-red days of frontier Oklahoma! morePlot Keywords:
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A Summit of Outlawry moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Randolph Scott | ... | Marshal Vance Cordell | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Sundance Kid | |
| Anne Jeffreys | ... | Cheyenne (Jeanie McBride) | |
| George 'Gabby' Hayes | ... | John J. Pettit - Bank President | |
| Jacqueline White | ... | Madge Allen - Pettit's Daughter / Cordell's Fiancée | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Cole Younger | |
| Tom Keene | ... | Jim Younger (as Richard Powers) | |
| Robert Bray | ... | John Younger | |
| Lex Barker | ... | Emmett Dalton | |
| Walter Reed | ... | Bob Dalton | |
| Michael Harvey | ... | Grat Dalton | |
| Dean White | ... | Billy the Kid | |
| Robert Armstrong | ... | Wild Bill Doolin | |
| Tom Tyler | ... | Wild Bill Yeager | |
| Lew Harvey | ... | Arkansas Kid |
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Randolph Scott had scored a pretty good success dealing with a whole bunch of name outlaws in Badman's Territory a few years back. Small wonder that RKO decided to repeat the same formula. Though Return of the Badmen is by no means a sequel to the original film.
Return of the Badmen finds Randolph Scott as a retired Texas Ranger looking to settle in the newly opened Oklahoma Territory. But formerly the territory known as the Indian nations was patrolled by the army with visits from occasional federal peace officers like Rooster Cogburn if John Wayne fans will remember True Grit.
A summit of outlawry has been called by Bill Doolin as played by Robert Armstrong. He brings in the Daltons, the Youngers, Billy the Kid, and the meanest of them all, the Sundance Kid as played by Robert Ryan. This is not the same guy who partnered with Paul Newman. He's a mean cuss and he's the guy that Randolph Scott eventually squares off with for reasons you'll have to see the film for.
Repeating the same formula that RKO used for Scott in Abilene Town, he's got two girls pursuing him. One is Jacqueline White who is banker Gabby Hayes's daughter who is the widow of a peace officer herself with a small son in Gary Gray. The other is a Calamity Jane type outlaw named Cheyenne played by Anne Jeffreys who is Armstrong's niece. Again you'll have to see Return of the Bad Men to figure out who Scott gets.
In true cowboy hero fashion, old peace officer Randolph Scott answers the call of the citizenry for law and order. Though Return of the Bad Men doesn't cover any new ground, it's a good western for Randolph Scott.
Or as Mel Brooks would have it, RANDOLPH SCOTT.