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Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney" in Republic's Desert Bandit. Barry is cast as two-fisted Texas Ranger Bob Crandall, who after being dishonorably discharged heads to the Mexican border to start life anew. He falls in with a gang of gun runners, headed by corrupt lawman Largo (William Haade). It turns out, of course, that Crandall's "disgrace" was merely a ruse to allow him to work undercover in bringing Largo and his minions to justice.

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Top billed cast

Don 'Red' BarryBob Crandall, Texas Ranger
Lynn MerrickSue Martin
William HaadeLargo
James GilletteTim Martin
Dick WesselHenchman Hawk
Tom ChattertonTexas Ranger Captain Banning
Tom EwellTexas Ranger Ordway
Robert StrangeHatfield
Charles R. MooreT-Bone Jones
Ernie StantonSheriff Warde

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