Movie: The Sombrero Kid

Top 10 Billed Cast

Don 'Red' Barry
Don 'Red' Barry

Jerry Holden

Lynn Merrick
Lynn Merrick

Dorothy Russell

Robert Homans
Robert Homans

Marshal Thomas Holden

John James
John James

Tommy Holden

Joel Friedkin
Joel Friedkin

Uriah Martin

Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks

Philip Martin

Stuart Hamblen
Stuart Hamblen

Smoke Denton

Robert McKenzie
Robert McKenzie

Judge Tater

Slim Andrews
Slim Andrews

Panamint

Anne O'Neal
Anne O'Neal

Mrs. Barnett

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    A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Friedkin) gang of claim jumpers, Jerry learns that his real father was Bart Clanton, a notorious bandit killed by Marshal Holden, who then raised the orphaned boy as his own.

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    1942-07-31

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