Desert Bandit

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.

• George ShermanDirector
• Eliot GibbonsScreenplay
• Bennett CohenScreenplay

• 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
• Charles KingDying Henchman at Wagon (uncredited)