The Last Bandit
Directed by	Joseph Kane
Written by	Thames Williamson Luci Ward Jack Natteford
Based on	The Great Train Robbery 1941 film by Joseph Kane
Produced by	Joseph Kane
Starring	Wild Bill Elliott Lorna Gray Forrest Tucker Andy Devine
Cinematography	Jack A. Marta
Edited by	Arthur Roberts
Music by	R. Dale Butts
Color process	Trucolor
Production company	Republic Pictures
Distributed by	Republic Pictures
Release date	February 25, 1949 (1949-02-25)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Last Bandit is a 1949 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Bill Elliott, Lorna Gray and Forrest Tucker. It was a remake by Republic Pictures of the 1941 film The Great Train Robbery^[1] with a larger budget and using the studio's Trucolor process. The film was remade again in 1952 as South Pacific Trail.

Plot

Frank Norris, now working as a railroad detective, is implicated in an attempt by his former outlaw colleagues to rob a series of gold shipments.

Partial cast

• Wild Bill Elliott as Frank Norris / Frank Plummer
• Lorna Gray as Kate Foley / Kate Sampson
• Forrest Tucker as Jim Plummer
• Andy Devine as Casey Brown
• Jack Holt as Mort Pemberton
• Minna Gombell as Winnie McPhail
• Grant Withers as Ed Bagley
• Virginia Brissac as Kate's Mother
• Louis Faust as Hank Morse
• Stanley Andrews as Jeff Baldwin
• Martin Garralaga as Patrick Moreno
• Joseph Crehan as Local No. 44 Engineer
• Charles Middleton as Blindfolded Circuit Rider

References

Bibliography

• Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Last Bandit.

• The Last Bandit at IMDb
• The Last Bandit at AllMovie
• The Last Bandit at the TCM Movie Database
• The Last Bandit at the American Film Institute Catalog