''Desert Vigilante'' is a 1949 American
Western
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film directed by
Fred F. Sears and written by Earle Snell. The film stars
Charles Starrett
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,
Peggy Stewart,
Tris Coffin
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Coffin's mother was actre ...
, Mary Newton,
George Chesebro
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Partial filmography
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and
Smiley Burnette
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. The film was released on April 9, 1949, by
Columbia Pictures
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.
Plot
Cast
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
as Steve Wood / The Durango Kid
*
Peggy Stewart as Betty Long
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Tris Coffin
Tristram Chockley Coffin (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in westerns or other B-movie action-adventure productions.
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Coffin's mother was actre ...
as Thomas Hadley
*Mary Newton as Angel
*
George Chesebro
George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
* ''Mi ...
as Bill Martin
*
Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and ...
as Smiley Burnette
*
Paul Campbell as Bob Gill
*Tex Harding as Jim Gill
*
Jack Ingram
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as Sergeant
*
I. Stanford Jolley
Isaac Stanford Jolley (October 24, 1900 – December 7, 1978) was an American film and television actor. He starred in the 1946 film serial ''The Crimson Ghost'', in which he played the role of Doctor Blackton and also voiced the title cha ...
as Heavy
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0041291, Desert Vigilante
1949 films
American Western (genre) films
1949 Western (genre) films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Fred F. Sears
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films