About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In ...
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Title: The Last Bandit (1949)
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| Bill Elliott | ... | Frank Norris / Frank Plummer (as William Elliott) | |
| Lorna Gray | ... | Kate Foley / Kate Sampson (as Adrian Booth) | |
| Forrest Tucker | ... | Jim Plummer | |
| Andy Devine | ... | Casey Brown | |
| Jack Holt | ... | Mort Pemberton | |
| Minna Gombell | ... | Winnie McPhail | |
| Grant Withers | ... | Ed Bagley | |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Kate's Mother | |
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Louis Faust | ... | Hank Morse (as Louis R. Faust) |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Jeff Baldwin | |
| Martin Garralaga | ... | Patrick Moreno | |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | Local No. 44 Engineer | |
| Charles Middleton | ... | Blindfolded Circuit Rider | |
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About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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'THERE'S GOLD ON THAT TRAIN...and we're going to get it!" (original poster) See more »Genres:
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Jim Plummer: Why, I'm tying you up. Can't let my future wife get away from me again!
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Adapted from traditional song "Careless Love"
Written by Jack Elliott
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When proprietor Winnie McPhail of the Square Deal Casino opens a closet door in a room above the saloon, it appears to look out over an outdoor tree line on the horizon. See more »Quotes
Kate Foley: What are you doing?Jim Plummer: Why, I'm tying you up. Can't let my future wife get away from me again!
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Opening credits are displayed as pages of a book. See more »Soundtracks
Love Is Such a Funny ThingAdapted from traditional song "Careless Love"
Written by Jack Elliott
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25 February 1949 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Det store togoverfald See more »Company Credits
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The Last Bandit which is a remake of an earlier Republic western that starred Bob Steele called The Great Robbery involves the story of Wild Bill Elliott and Forrest Tucker, a pair of outlaw brothers named Plummer who have gone their separate ways. Elliott has left their Ozark turf and gone west to Nevada and now works for a railroad express company making an honest living. But when Tucker hears that he figures he's got an inside man for a really big score. He brings the whole gang with him from Missouri to Nevada and that includes Adrian Booth who flirts between the two brothers.
Still a film aimed at the juvenile trade, The Last Bandit is a great deal more intricately plotted than most westerns out of Republic Studios. Herbert J. Yates even splurged for a color process called TruColor and the DVD I have it shows it has aged well or been nicely restored. The color may make this the most expensive Wild Bill Elliott western ever done.
Such stalwarts as Jack Holt, Andy Devine, Virginia Brissac, Martin Garralaga, and Grant Withers are all in the cast in roles suited to them. Charles Middleton the famous Ming the Merciless makes his farewell appearance in The Last Bandit as a circuit riding preacher at the beginning of the film. But the one to watch is Minna Gombell who plays the proprietress of the saloon where all the plots are hatched and she's sitting on the nest. The film also hints ever so gently at her real profession as madam of a bordello, also unusual for a film marketed to juveniles.
The final 20 minutes or so deals with the robbery and Elliott's attempt to foil same. It was expertly done and a close run thing.
The Last Bandit is definitely a must for Wild Bill Elliott fans.