Best of the Badmen

Best of the Badmen Information

Best of the Badmen is a western adventure film directed by William D. Russell that is set in Missouri during the post-American Civil War period.

Plot summary

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.

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

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