Best of the Badmen
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| Directed by | William D. Russell |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
| Written by |
Robert Hardy Andrews John Twist |
| Starring |
Robert Ryan Claire Trevor Jack Buetel Walter Brennan Lawrence Tierney |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Best of the Badmen is a 1951 western adventure film directed by William D. Russell that is set in Missouri during the post-American Civil War period. It stars Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor and Robert Preston. It was a loose follow-up to Return of the Bad Men (1948).
Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Clanton pledges that they will be paroled, but Matthew Fowler, a carpetbagger who owns a powerful detective agency, is determined to arrest them for the reward. When one of Fowler's deputies wounds one of the captives, return fire kills the deputy. Clanton is unjustly arrested for murdering Fowler's deputy. Clanton is tried by a kangaroo court and sentenced to be hanged the following morning. He escapes that night and then leads the band of outlaws including Jesse James and the Younger brothers in a vendetta against detective Matthew Fowler's detective agency.
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