Overview

Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.

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Cast

Don 'Red' Barry

Bob Crandall, Texas Ranger

Lynn Merrick

Sue Martin

William Haade

Largo

Dick Wessel

Henchman Hawk

Tom Chatterton

Texas Ranger Captain Banning

Tom Ewell

Texas Ranger Ordway

Robert Strange

Hatfield

Charles R. Moore

T-Bone Jones

Ernie Stanton

Sheriff Warde

Charles King

Dying Henchman at Wagon (uncredited)