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{{Infobox film

| name = Best of the Badmen

| image = Best of the Badmen poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = William D. Russell

| producer = Samuel Bischoff

| writer = Robert Hardy Andrews
John Twist

| starring = Robert Ryan
Claire Trevor
Jack Buetel
Walter Brennan
Lawrence Tierney

| music = Paul Sawtell

| cinematography = Edward Cronjager

| editing = Desmond Marquette

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released =

| runtime = 84 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

'Best of the Badmen' is a 1951 Western film directed by William D. Russell that is set in Missouri during the post-American Civil War period. It stars Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor and Robert Preston. It was a loose follow-up to 'Return of the Bad Men' (1948).

Plot



The plot centres around the James-Younger Gang and their activities.

Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders and convinces them to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Clanton pledges that they will be paroled, but Matthew Fowler, a carpetbagger who owns a powerful detective agency, is determined to arrest them for the reward. When one of Fowler's deputies wounds one of the captives, return fire kills the deputy. Clanton is unjustly arrested for murdering Fowler's deputy. Clanton is tried by a kangaroo court and sentenced to be hanged the following morning. He escapes that night and then leads the band of outlaws including Jesse James and the Younger brothers in a vendetta against detective Matthew Fowler's detective agency.

Cast



*Robert Ryan as Jeff Clanton

*Claire Trevor as Lily

*Jack Buetel as Bob Younger

*Robert Preston as Matthew Fowler

*Walter Brennan as 'Doc' Butcher

*Bruce Cabot as Cole Younger

*John Archer as Curley Ringo

*Lawrence Tierney as Jesse James

*Barton MacLane as Joad

*Tom Tyler as Frank James

*Robert J. Wilke as Jim Younger

*John Cliff as John Younger

*Lee MacGregor as Lieutenant Blaine

*Emmett Lynn as Oscar

*Carleton Young as Wilson

Production



Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Johnson Canyon, Strawberry Valley, the Gap, and Kanab Canyon in Utah.

References




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