The Bad Man (1941 film)


The Bad Man is a 1941 American Western film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, and Ronald Reagan. The movie was written by Wells Root from the Porter Emerson Browne play, and directed by Richard Thorpe. The film is a remake of the 1923 silent version and the 1930 remake. The supporting cast features Tom Conway and Chill Wills.

Plot

Gil Jones is happy to find Lucia, his childhood love, when she unexpectedly arrives at his ranch in Mexico, but he learns that she is now married to Morgan Pell, a businessman from New York. That same afternoon, the famous bandit Pancho Lopez steals cattle from the ranch and injures Gil. Gil's uncle Henry is angry that the robbery is ruining them. In the evening, Morgan tells Lucia that he fears that she still loves Gil, but she promises to always stay with him.
A month later, when the banker Hardy wanted to take over the ranch, Morgan returned from the city and offered $20,000 for this apparently worthless ranch. Uncle Henry manages to convince the two men that there may be petroleum under his land. It gets even more complicated when Lopez arrives and takes everyone hostage... except Gil who was in the barn at the time.

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