by Hal Erickson
synopsis
The rubber-stamp quality of Allan "Rocky" Lane's Republic westerns continued to manifest itself in Bandit King of Texas. Lane plays an honest cowboy who has seemingly fallen in with an outlaw gang. It comes as no surprise when Lane turns out to be working undercover to bring the gang to justice. As with his earlier films, the whole story is wrapped up in a brisk 60 minutes. One of the pleasanter aspects of Allan Lane's vehicles was their depiction of the villains as fairly normal human beings: in this case, Jim Nolan is the wicked but essentially believable heavy.
characteristics
- Murder
- Marshal
- Loot
- Outlaw [Western]
- Scam
- Town
- Swindle
- Suspect
- Land
- Gunslinger
- Con/scam
- Con-game
- Con-artist
- False-accusation
- Frontier
