Across the Badlands
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Across the Badlands

The Badlands Echo With Six-Gun Action!

7.0 / 10 1950 55mNR English
Western

Storyline

Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.

Cast & Crew

Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett

Steve Ransom / Durango Kid

Lead
Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Smiley

Helen Mowery

Helen Mowery

Eileen Carson

Stanley Andrews

Stanley Andrews

Sheriff Crocker

Robert J. Wilke

Robert J. Wilke

Duke Jackson / Keno Jackson (as Bob Wilke)

Dick Elliott

Dick Elliott

Rufus Downey

Hugh Prosser

Hugh Prosser

Jeff Carson

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Fred F. Sears's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Across the Badlands is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker