Best of the Badmen

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Best of the Badmen
RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	June 9, 1951 (1951-06-09)[1]
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Best of the Badmen is a 1951 Western 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).

Plot

The plot centres around the

and their activities.

Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's

in a vendetta against Matthew Fowler's detective agency.

Cast

• Robert Ryan as Jeff Clanton
• Claire Trevor as Lily
• Jack Buetel as Bob Younger
• Robert Preston as Matthew Fowler
• Walter Brennan as 'Doc' Butcher
• Bruce Cabot as Cole Younger
• John Archer as Curley Ringo
• Lawrence Tierney as Jesse James
• Barton MacLane as Joad
• Tom Tyler as Frank James
• Robert J. Wilke as Jim Younger
• John Cliff as John Younger
• Lee MacGregor as Lieutenant Blaine
• Emmett Lynn as Oscar
• Carleton Young as Wilson

Production

Parts of the film were shot in Paria, Johnson Canyon, Strawberry Valley, the Gap, and Kanab Canyon in Utah.^[2]

References

External links

• Best of the Badmen at
  IMDb
• Best of the Badmen at AllMovie
• Best of the Badmen at the TCM Movie Database
• Best of the Badmen at the American Film Institute Catalog