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I love this movie so much

Strong and Moving!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Make a Western with the iconic Randolph Scott, throw in some veteran cowboys like Gabby Hayes, Steve Brodie, Robert Ryan, Tom Tyler, Tom Keene and sprinkle in the likes of Jason Robards,Sr., Robert Armstrong and Anne Jeffreys, and how can you go wrong?Well, it ain't easy, but the bunch responsible for this dull affair did it. Apparently they bit off more than they could chew as far as the plot is concerned - there is some love interest, a little comic relief, some character study, loads of superfluous dialogue and many sidetrack plots. But the whole rationale for producing a western is the intrinsic action, which has been almost completely forgotten in this all-star potboiler. There is a good fistfight and a stagey-looking shootout towards the end but it takes too long to get there.Not really worth a look, but it's interesting to reflect on what could have been.

The reviewer "krorie" from Van Buren, Arkansas, goes to great length to point out how historically Return of the Badmen were, listing the dates the different real life outlaws, depicted in the film, were living and when they died. While your research is to be commended, you missed the whole point of the movie. It was made for entertainment not enlightenment. Most of the westerns made by Hollywood took liberties with the facts and were presented in a fashion that audiences could accept. The Return of the Badmen, like its predecessor "Badmen Territory" used the combined villainy of real life western outlaws to add appeal to the western. While both films were made in the late Forties, and television had not yet made an effect on the movie going public, the genre was slowly being burned out. Everything possible had been tried in order to boost box office appeal. Actually, the B western was already suffering from postwar production costs, and ticket prices in those years right before television. Many families, particularly those with small children, did not have the money for a babysitter and so spent the evenings at home listening to radio. The movie westerns did their best box office at the Saturday afternoon matinées when parents dropped off their children at the theater so they could go shopping. While Randolph Scott made many westerns, these two westerns, particularly Return of the Badmen, must have made an impression on producer Mel Brooks because he uses Randolph Scott's name as an in-joke in his 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles. The townspeople are reluctant to help their new sheriff, who happens to be black, combat the outlaw hoards which is coming to their town. One person speaks up in defense of the sheriff by saying "You would help Randolph Scott" whereupon the people reverently repeat Scott's name as they take off their hats and are bathed in a heavenly light which shines from above.

Pretty fair horse opera set during Oklahoma land rush. Features Randolph Scott along with just about every "B" star in business such as Anne Jeffries (Tess Trueheart), Tom Tyler (Captain Marvel) and Lex Barker (Tarzan). Outlaws, calvary, bandit queens, the works. Scott does his usual Oscar-caliber imitation of a cigar store Indian.

When a ruthless gang of bank and train robbers begin terrorizing a fledgling Oklahoma countryside, a new marshall is appointed to bring them to justice. It is no easy task because the bandits consist of the infamous Doolins, Daltons, and Youngers. Particularly troublesome is the psychotic Sundance Kid, an ornery lowdown skunk if ever there was one. Just an average western with a lot of old familiar faces.