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The Last Bandit (1949)

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.

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Romance

Top billed cast

Bill ElliottFrank Norris / Frank Plummer (as William Elliott)
Lorna GrayKate Foley / Kate Sampson (as Adrian Booth)
Forrest TuckerJim Plummer
Andy DevineCasey Brown
Jack HoltMort Pemberton
Minna GombellWinnie McPhail
Virginia BrissacKate's Mother
Louis FaustHank Morse (as Louis R. Faust)
Stanley AndrewsJeff Baldwin
Martín GarralagaPatrick Moreno

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