Outlaw Country (1949 film)

Outlaw Country
Original film poster
Directed by Ray Taylor
Written by Ron Ormond
Ira S. Webb
Based on story by Ormond and Webb
Produced by Ron Ormond
Starring Lash LaRue
Music by Walter Greene
Distributed by Screen Guild Productions
Release date
  • January 7, 1949
Running time
 72 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Outlaw Country is a 1949 American Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Lash LaRue and Al "Fuzzy" St. John in a dual role as a U.S. Marshal and his outlaw brother known as the "Frontier Phantom". The film, shot at the Iverson Movie Ranch led to a 1952 sequel The Frontier Phantom.

Plot

In a small area between the United States and Mexican frontier is a small area that is under the jurisdiction of neither nation. Jim McCord charges outlaws on the run money to stay in his domain called "Robbers Roost". McCord has also kidnapped a United States Treasury engraver and his daughter in order to create counterfeit US dollars. US Marshal Clark and his Mexican counterpart Señor Cordova recruit Marshal Lash La Rue and Deputy Fuzzy Q. Jones to "take the law into their own hands" to put the outlaws out of business. One of the outlaws is Lash's twin brother, known as the Frontier Phantom.

Meanwhile, Fuzzy studies to become a hypnotist and a wizard.

Cast