The Desperados Are in Town
1956 film by Kurt Neumann
- November 1956 (1956-11) (USA)
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The Desperados Are in Town is a 1956 American Western film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Robert Arthur and Kathleen Nolan.[1]
It was a B movie made for the bottom half of double bills.[2][3]
It was known as The Outlaws are in Town.[4] Kurt Neumann signed to make the movie in July 1956.[5]
Plot
A farm hand from Georgia goes west to Texas, but finds the area overrun with outlaws.
Cast
- Robert Arthur as Lenny Kesh
- Kathleen Nolan as Alice Rutherford (as Kathy Nolan)
- Rhys Williams as Jud Collins
- Rhodes Reason as Frank Banner
- Dave O'Brien as Dock Lapman / Mr. Brown
- Kelly Thordsen as Big Tobe Lapman
- Mae Clarke as Jane Kesh
- Robert Osterloh as Deputy Sheriff Mike Broome
- William Challee as Tom Kesh
- Carol Kelly as Hattie
- Frank Sully as Carl Branch
- Morris Ankrum as Mr. Rutherford
- Dick Wessel as Hank Green (as Richard Wessel)
- Dorothy Granger as Molly, Saloon Girl (as Dorothy Grainger)
- Tod Griffin as Ranger
- Nancy Evans as Mrs. Rutherford
- Ann Stebbins as Girl
- Byron Foulger as Jim Day
See also
References
- ^ Quinlan p.409
- ^ "Platters will headline show". Los Angeles Times. November 28, 1956. ProQuest 167004144.
- ^ "DESPERADOS ARE IN TOWN, the". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 24. 1957. p. 17 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Schallert, E. (July 10, 1956). "Drama". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 166976252.
- ^ OSCAR GODBOUT (July 5, 1956). "FERRER TO DIRECT AND STAR IN FILM". New York Times. ProQuest 113801301.
Bibliography
- Quinlan, David. The Film Lover's Companion: An A to Z Guide to 2,000 Stars and the Movies They Made. Carol Publishing Group, 1997.
External links
- The Desperados Are in Town at IMDb
- The Desperados Are in Town at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Desperados Are in Town at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Kurt Neumann
- El Tenorio del harem (1931)
- Fast Companions (1932)
- My Pal, the King (1932)
- The Big Cage (1933)
- The Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
- King for a Night (1933)
- Let's Talk It Over (1934)
- Half a Sinner (1934)
- Wake Up and Dream (1934)
- Alias Mary Dow (1935)
- The Affair of Susan (1935)
- Let's Sing Again (1936)
- Rainbow on the River (1936)
- Espionage (1937)
- Make a Wish (1937)
- That Navy Spirit (1937)
- Wide Open Faces (1938)
- Generals of Tomorrow (1938)
- Ambush (1939)
- Unmarried (1939)
- Island of Lost Men (1939)
- All Women Have Secrets (1939)
- Ellery Queen, Master Detective (1940)
- A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
- Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
- Fall In (1942)
- The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942)
- Taxi, Mister (1943)
- Yanks Ahoy (1943)
- The Unknown Guest (1943)
- Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
- Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
- Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
- The Dude Goes West (1948)
- Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)
- Bad Boy (1949)
- Two Knights from Brooklyn (1949)
- The Kid from Texas (1950)
- Rocketship X-M (1950)
- Cattle Drive (1951)
- Reunion in Reno (1951)
- Son of Ali Baba (1952)
- The Ring (1952)
- Hiawatha (1952)
- Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
- Regina Amstetten (1954)
- Three from Variety (1954)
- Carnival Story (1954)
- Circus of Love (1954)
- They Were So Young (1954)
- The Star of Rio (1955)
- Mohawk (1956)
- The Desperados Are in Town (1956)
- She Devil (1957)
- Kronos (1957)
- The Deerslayer (1957)
- The Fly (1958)
- Machete (1958)
- Watusi (1959)
- Counterplot (1959)
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