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'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'Fetrow p.263 with a larger budget and using the studio's Trucolor process. The film was remade again in 1952 as 'South Pacific Trail'.

Plot



Frank Norris, now working as a railroad detective, is implicated in an attempt by his former outlaw colleagues to rob a series of gold shipments.

Partial cast



* Wild Bill Elliott as Frank Norris / Frank Plummer

* Lorna Gray as Kate Foley / Kate Sampson

* Forrest Tucker as Jim Plummer

* Andy Devine as Casey Brown

* Jack Holt as Mort Pemberton

* Minna Gombell as Winnie McPhail

* Grant Withers as Ed Bagley

* Virginia Brissac as Kate's Mother

* Louis Faust as Hank Morse

* Stanley Andrews as Jeff Baldwin

* Martin Garralaga as Patrick Moreno

* Joseph Crehan as Local No. 44 Engineer

* Charles Middleton as Blindfolded Circuit Rider

References





Bibliography



* Fetrow, Alan G. 'Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography'. McFarland, 1994.


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