Bad Men of Tombstone
Cast & Crew
Kurt Neumann
Barry Sullivan
Marjorie Reynolds
Broderick Crawford
Fortunio Bonanova
Guinn "big Boy" Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
During the Gold Rush era, loner Tom Horn enters the Gold City Palace saloon and joins a poker game. When he loses $200, the crooked dealer, Blackie, takes Tom's horse and gun. Tom tries to steal the $200 but is caught and thrown in jail with the rough William Morgan. Tom sees three men outside the jail, and deducing that they are Morgan's gang, decides that if he can stick with them, he can escape. Morgan grudgingly allows Tom to join his gang, which includes his sidekicks John Mingo, Red Fisk and Curly. After narrowly evading a posse, the men head for Leadville, a wealthy but lawless Colorado mining town. At their camp, Tom proves his gunslinging talents and then goes into town alone to get some money. That night, his robbery of the Blue Goose Mining Company wins him the second-in-command spot in the gang. In town the next day, Tom bumps into Julie, the Blue Goose bookkeeper he robbed. Although she recognizes him, she deliberately misleads the sheriff and asks Tom to call on her. A few nights later, the gang robs a train and stores the loot in an abandoned mine shaft. The sheriff assembles a large posse, while Tom and Julie spend the night talking. A few months later, Julie urges Tom to marry her, and he agrees that within two weeks he will collect the money Morgan owes him and take her to San Francisco. The miners, meanwhile, have slowed down the gang by melting the silver into thousand-pound bricks, and when no one can think of a way to steal the heavy bars, Tom goes to the mining company to get inside information. Trusting Tom, the foreman tips him off about pounds of gold dust that are mined at the same time as the silver and taken to the Leadville bank by the miners. Tom leads the gang on an ambush and, after they collect the gold, they spread out in five different directions in order to elude the posse. When Curly is shot by the sheriff, however, he reveals the names of the other men. The gang meets up one week later in Tombstone, an operational base for outlaws throughout the West. Tom angers Morgan by bringing Julie, his new wife, but Julie soon convinces Tom to quit the gang. Morgan and Mingo, however, hatch a plan to kill Tom and Red and divide the still-hidden loot between the two of them. That night Mingo murders Red but as he sneaks into Tom's room, an alert Tom shoots him through the door. Tom follows Morgan to the mine, shoots him and takes Morgan's horse, which is loaded with money. In town, a man recognizes his stolen horse and gathers his friends to confront Tom. When Tom pulls his guns, he is shot and the last of the bad men is killed.
Director
Kurt Neumann
Cast
Barry Sullivan
Marjorie Reynolds
Broderick Crawford
Fortunio Bonanova
Guinn "big Boy" Williams
John Kellogg
Mary Newton
Dennis Hoey
Morris Ankrum
Robert Barrat
Louis Jean Heydt
Virginia Carroll
Julie Gibson
Ted Hecht
Joseph Crehan
Olin Howlin
Tom Fadden
Harry Hayden
Lucien Littlefield
Claire Carleton
Douglas Fowley
Dick Wessel
Harry Cording
Milton Kibbee
Rory Mallinson
Ted French
George Chesebro
William Yip
Ed Cassidy
Kid Chissell
Jack Pitts
Jack Reynolds
Billy Gray
Gerald Courtemarche
Bonnie Lou Donaldson
Lillian Sherlock
Ted Mapes
Arthur Hecht
Julie Gibson
Dick Foote
Crew
C. Bakaleinikoff
Tony Carnagle
Sam Freedle
Stuart Frye
Arthur Gardner
Jack Glass
Bud Graybill
Russell Harlan
Frank S. Heath
Richard Heermance
Theobold Holsopple
Ben Kadish
Johnny Kean
Frank King
Herman King
Hyman King
Maurice King
Tom Lambert
Beth Langston
Harry Lewis
Max R. Luttenberg
Clarence Marks
Clarence Marks
Harold Mcniff
Ed Morey Jr.
Kurt Neumann
George Sawley
Jack Shaw
Earl Sitar
Arthur Siteman
Fleet Southcott
Arthur Strawn
Roy Webb
Philip Yordan
Film Details
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Notes
The working title of this film was Last of the Badmen. Although the screen credits list Jack Glass and Jack Shaw as the special effects directors, Allied Artists' production sheet lists Max Luttenberg instead. Voice-over narration is heard briefly at the beginning of the picture.
