Across the Badlands(1950)
The Badlands Echo With Six-Gun Action!
Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.
Movie: Across the Badlands
Top 7 Billed Cast
Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
Smiley
Eileen Carson
Sheriff Crocker
Duke Jackson / Keno Jackson (as Bob Wilke)
Rufus Downey
Jeff Carson
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