Outlaw Country | |
Director: | Ray Taylor |
Producer: | Ron Ormond |
Based On: | story by Ormond and Webb |
Starring: | Lash LaRue |
Music: | Walter Greene |
Distributor: | Screen Guild Productions |
Runtime: | 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[1] 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.
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.