''The Frontier Phantom'' is a 1952 American

Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

film produced and directed by

Ron Ormond Ron Ormond (born Vittorio Di Naro, August 29, 1910 – May 11, 1981) was an American author, showman, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of Western, musical, and exploitation films. Following his survival of a 1968 plane crash, Ormo ...

starring

Lash LaRue Alfred "Lash" LaRue (June 15, 1917 – May 21, 1996) was a popular western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Early life and education Born Alfred LaRue in Gretna, Louisiana in 1917, he was reared in various towns th ...

in the final film of Ormond's Western Adventure Productions, Inc. It was the final film of

Al St. John Al St. John (also credited as Al Saint John and "Fuzzy" St. John; September 10, 1892 – January 21, 1963) was an early American motion-picture comedian. He was a nephew of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, with whom he often performed on ...

. The majority of the film's length is taken up with a reuse of the 1949 film '' Outlaw Country''.

Plot

Taking place four days after Lash and Fuzzy's breaking up of a counterfeit gang detailed in the 1949 film '' Outlaw Country'', Lash is mistaken for his twin brother the Frontier Phantom and arrested. At the jail, Lash relates the events of the smashing of the counterfeit outlaw gang and his meeting the last member of the gang Sam Mantell for a showdown.

Cast

Lash La Rue Alfred "Lash" LaRue (June 15, 1917 – May 21, 1996) was a popular western motion picture star of the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Early life and education Born Alfred LaRue in Gretna, Louisiana in 1917, he was reared in various towns th ...

as Marshal Lash La Rue *

as Deputy Fuzzy Q. Jones * Archie Twitchell as Sheriff *

Virginia Herrick Virginia Herrick (June 13, 1916 – January 29, 2016) was an American film and television actress and an opera soprano. Filmography Films *'' The Frontier Phantom'' (1952) - Susan *''Secrets of Beauty'' (1951) - Betty Westmore *''Montana Desperad ...

as Susan *

Kenne Duncan Kenne Duncan (February 17, 1903 – February 5, 1972) was a Canadian-born American B-movie character actor. Hyped professionally as "The Meanest Man in the Movies," the vast majority of his over 250 appearances on camera were Westerns, but ...

as Sam Mantell * Sandy Sanders as Mantell Henchman * Clarke Stevens as Deputy Lee * Cliff Taylor as Sparky the Telegrapher * Bud Osborne as Deputy Matt * Buck Garrett as Mantell henchman * Jack O'Shea as Prisoner *

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 Cy the Bartender/Mayor

References

External links

* 1952 films American Western (genre) films 1952 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{1950s-western-film-stub