Bad Men of Missouri (Warner Bros.) (1941)

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Kent; Director of Photography, Arthur Todd, A.S.C.; Dialogue Director, Robert Foulk; Film Editor, Clarence Kolster; Art Director, Ted Smith; Sound by Stanley Jones; Technical Advisor, Pearl May Kearns; Makeup Artist, Perc Westmore; Gowns by Milo Anderson. (Not For Publication): The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy), return to Missouri after the Civil War and set out to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick (Victor Jory), a skinflint banker. Merrick has been buying up tax warrants and dispossessing farmers. The Younger boys’ father has been killed by one of the Merrick hoodlums and then a murder rap planted on Cole. The boys flee and launch a campaign of bank and train robbery, chiefly stealing from Merrick, and turn the money over to the farmers, who thereby save their farms. Jim, in love with Mary Hathaway (Jane Wyman), is lured into Harrisonville and jailed, but Cole and Bob rescue him. Eventually, they are captured by a posse. The people of Missouri work for their pardon. (Running Time—74 min.) @ LEAD STORIES ® ‘Bad Men of Missouri’ Thrilling Saga of West's Bandit-Heroes The colorful story of the Younger brothers in their daring escapades throughout the Old West is vividly told in the Warner Bros.’ exciting film successor to that studio’s ‘Dodge City” and “Santa Fe Trail,” “Bad Men of Missouri,” which opens at the Strand Friday. The Younger brothers were one of the toughest trio of bandits in America’s turbulent history. They robbed banks, trains and stagecoaches with a daring that was unbelievable, taking the law into their own hands to avenge the wrongs done their neighbors by an_ avaricious power-grasping banker. Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris and Arthur Kennedy play the parts of the Robin Hood type desperadoes and from advance reports we hear that they are perfectly cast as the three embittered boys who return from the Civil War only to find their father murdered and their home and the homes of most of their neighbors in the hands of the local banker. Jane Wyman plays the role of a girl who loves Jim Younger, Arthur Kennedy’s part, and tries to dissuade him from becoming a criminal. But he and his brothers are determined to avenge their father’s death. Train, bank, stagecoach fall prey to the calculating minds of the Younger brothers. Their names become synonymous with danger. Town after town experiences their grim visits. No sheriff — no posse can trap them .. . their escapes become more clever... more daring. But suddenly the end of their law Still BM 365; Mat 205—30c MISSOURI'S OUTLAW HEROES—Dennis Morgan, Arthur Kennedy and Wayne Morris as the Younger brothers, daring outlaws who wrote history with their blazing guns. Their bullet-splashed story is told in “Bad Men of Missouri” opening at the Strand on Friday. less career comes in a completely surprising manner. The Younger brothers used their loot only to help the neighboring farmers keep their farms. For this they become famous as the Robin Hood bandits. Theirs is the strangest story in the action packed history of the West. Besides a brilliant leading cast and authenticity in story, “Bad Men of Missouri” has a supporting cast which features such fine performers as Victor Jory, Alan Baxter, Walter Catlett, and Sam McDaniel. ‘Bad Men of Missouri Opens at Strand Friday The Strand Theatre’s new picture opening Friday will be “Bad Men of Missouri,” a riproaring saga of pioneer times, with Dennis Morgan playing the lead as Cole Younger, chieftain of the notorious. gang of bank and train robbers: that terriorized Missouri, lowa.and Kansas immediately after the Civil War. Playing with Morgan are Wayne Morris as Bob Younger, Arthur Kennedy as Jim Young-: er, Jane Wyman as Mary Hathaway, Victor Jory as Banker William Merrick and Sam McDaniel as the servant, Wash. The story picks up the Younger brothers as they leave the defeated Confederate army in 1865, shows them receiving word of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and takes them back to their home in time to discover that their father is being dispossessed by Banker Merrick who has claimed the homestead through purchase of tax warrants. He is attempting in this manner to get control of nearly all of Missouri, dispossessing the rightful owners of the farm lands. In an altercation over the dispossession, the elder Younger is killed and Cole Younger is charged with having slain the sheriff who had come to serve the dispossess warrant. From this beginning grows _ their career of outlawry. Dennis Morgan Heads Cast of Strand Film “Bad Men of Missouri,” Warner Bros. rip-roaring successor to “Santa Fe Trail” and “Dodge City,” will be this week’s newcomer at the Strand Theatre, where it opens on Friday. The large cast is headed by Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris, Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyman, and includes such well-known players as Alan Baxter, Victor Jory, Walter Catlett and Sam McDaniel. Ray Enright directed the film which deals with the exciting real-life story of the three Younger brothers, Missouri’s bandit-heroes of post-Civil War days. Morgan, Morris and Kennedy play the three brothers, famous in Missouri’s history as Robin Hoods of the West.