Outlaw Country (1949 film)

Outlaw Country
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^[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.

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.