The Last Bandit (1949)
They chased the rumor of gold 'cross half a continent...men who knew only how to rob and kill...and their women who lived only for love!
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.
- Date of release
- 1949-02-25
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Western, Romance
- Director
- Joseph Kane
Casting
- Bill Elliott — Frank Norris / Frank Plummer
- Lorna Gray — Kate Foley / Kate Sampson
- Forrest Tucker — Jim Plummer
- Andy Devine — Casey Brown
- Jack Holt — Mort Pemberton
- Minna Gombell — Winnie McPhail
- Virginia Brissac — Kate's Mother
- Louis Faust — Hank Morse
- Stanley Andrews — Jeff Baldwin
- Martín Garralaga — Patrick Moreno
- Joseph Crehan — Local No. 44 Engineer
- Charles Middleton — Blindfolded Circuit Rider
Interesting facts
The Last Bandit is a 1949 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Bill Elliott, Lorna Gray and Forrest Tucker. It was a remake by Republic Pictures of the 1941 film The Great Train Robbery with a larger budget and using the studio's Trucolor process. The film was remade again in 1952 as South Pacific Trail.
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