The Last Bandit
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70% Critic Match

The Last Bandit

They chased the rumor of gold 'cross half a continent...men who knew only how to rob and kill...and their women who lived only for love!

7.0 / 10 1949 1h 18mNR English
WesternRomance

Storyline

About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.

Cast & Crew

Bill Elliott

Bill Elliott

Frank Norris / Frank Plummer

Lead
Lorna Gray

Lorna Gray

Kate Foley / Kate Sampson

Forrest Tucker

Forrest Tucker

Jim Plummer

Andy Devine

Andy Devine

Casey Brown

Jack Holt

Jack Holt

Mort Pemberton

Minna Gombell

Minna Gombell

Winnie McPhail

Virginia Brissac

Virginia Brissac

Kate's Mother

LF

Louis Faust

Hank Morse

What People Are Saying

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