Two-Fisted Stranger
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Cast & Crew
Ray Nazarro
Charles Starrett
Doris Houck
Zeke Clements
Smiley Burnette
Charles Murray Jr.
Film Details
Synopsis
In a small Nevada town during the pioneer days of the West, a series of stagecoach robberies prompts a group of citizens to deposit their money in the local bank for safekeeping. When the president of the bank, J. P. Martin, is given reason to believe that a parcel of land that he owns contains valuable minerals, he sends one of his associates, Brady, to San Francisco to have a soil sample analyzed by an assayer. Brady, who secretly leads a gang of outlaws, is accompanied on his stagecoach trip by Sheriff Condon, who volunteers to guard the stage's cash cargo. A short distance from town, the stage is ambushed by Brady's men and the sheriff is killed. The robbery, however, is foiled by the arrival of a mysterious rider named Steve Gordon. Steve captures one of the outlaws and scares the rest away with gunfire. Unknown to the bandits or the other townspeople, Steve is The Durango Kid, the famous masked rider and law and order champion. Back in town, Steve shows Martin and others written proof that he was deputized by Condon, and appoints himself the new sheriff. Condon, it is soon discovered, predicted a holdup along the trail and took the precaution of sending empty cash boxes on the stage and hiding the bank's $25,000 in his safe. With help from his deputy, Smiley, Steve vows to find the robbers and put an end to the lawlessness along the stagecoach trails. One day, when Martin's payroll office is robbed by a masked gunman, a fake posse is formed by the outlaws to search for the holdup man. Steve, sensing a trap, refuses to join the posse, and instead puts on his Durango Kid disguise and catches up with the masked bandit just as he is about to hand over the cash to Brady. Steve stops the transaction by pointing his gun at the two men, and later returns the money to Martin. One day, Smiley joins Brady on a hunting expedition, and finds rough diamonds in the soil. The discovery sets off a diamond rush, and Martin makes a fortune selling stock in the diamonds. His fortunes soon disappear, however, when he realizes that the discovery is a hoax perpetrated by Brady. When Martin confronts Brady, Brady knocks him unconscious, robs his safe and abducts his daughter Jenniver. After rescuing Jenniver, Steve, in his Durango Kid disguise, proves that Brady was filling mud flats with fake diamonds. The Brady gang is then rounded up and arrested, and Steve leaves town for another adventure.
Director
Ray Nazarro
Cast
Charles Starrett
Doris Houck
Zeke Clements
Smiley Burnette
Charles Murray Jr.
Lane Chandler
Ted Mapes
George Chesebro
Jack Rockwell
Herman Hack
Davison Clark
Maudie Prickett
Crew
Paul Borofsky
Smiley Burnette
Charles Clague
Colbert Clark
Zeke Clements
Carter Dehaven Jr.
Vincent Farrar
Emil Harris
Jack Haynes
Thelma Hoover
Robert Lee Johnson
Robert Lee Johnson
Richard Mansfield
Lee Penny
J. S. Westmoreland
Edwin Wetzel
Peter Whitehead
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The title of Peter Whitehead's orignal screen story was "When Durango Rode." Modern sources add the following actors to the cast: I. Stanford Jolley, Edmund Cobb, Nolan Leary, Frank Ellis, Frank O'Connor and Matty Roubert. For more information on "The Durango Kid" series, consult the Series Index and see the entry above for The Return of the Durango Kid.
