The Lone Rider and the Bandit (1942)

Directed by

Sam Newfield

Genre

western

Country

United States

Runtime

54 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singing cowboy and his comic sidekick get mixed up with a bandit. They work with a sheriff to set things right in a small western town.

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What happens

The Lone Rider and the Bandit is a 1942 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Sam Robins. The film stars George F. Houston as the Lone Rider, Al St. John as his sidekick "Fuzzy" Jones and Dennis Moore as Sheriff Smoky Moore, with Vickie Lester, Glenn Strange and Jack Ingram. The film was released on January 16, 1942, by Producers Releasing Corporation. This is the seventh movie in the Lone Rider series, which spans seventeen films—eleven starring George Houston, and a further six starring Robert Livingston. In this film, Dennis Moore joins the cast of the series as Sheriff Smoky Moore, and appears with Livingston and Al St. John for the next five films, ending in 1942's Overland Stagecoach. Houston, once an opera singer, sang three songs in this film: "I'm the Best Man in the West", "Down the Moonlit Trail" and "Rainbow Valley". The songs were written by Johnny Lange and Lew Porter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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