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Across the Badlands(1950)
Status: Released
Date: 1950-09-14
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Time: 0h 55m
The Badlands Echo With Six-Gun Action!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Across the Badlands
Top 7 Billed Cast
Charles Starrett
Steve Ransom / Durango Kid
Smiley Burnette
Smiley
Helen Mowery
Eileen Carson
Stanley Andrews
Sheriff Crocker
Robert J. Wilke
Duke Jackson / Keno Jackson (as Bob Wilke)
Dick Elliott
Rufus Downey
Hugh Prosser
Jeff Carson
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1950-09-14
Average
7
Rating:
3.5 startsTagline
The Badlands Echo With Six-Gun Action!
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Languages:
English
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