With the help of his old friend Smiley Burnette Steve breaks jail to find the real culprits.

Steve 'The Durango Kid' Norman is accused of a crime he didn't commit. The first film in which Charles Starrett played an alter-ego character known as "The Durango Kid" but this entry, for all intents and purposes, has only the names of Starrett and "Durango" in common with the long (long, long) "Durango Kid" series Starrett starred in from late-1944, beginning with "The Return of the Durango Kid" until 1952.


came the shouted exclamation from the B-western on-screen heavies as well as the Saturday matinee front row kids. Ballard conveniently blames one of the nesters for the killing and to get to the truth, Jim dons the garb of the feared Durango Kid, a Texas outlaw with a social conscience. Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, Martha Hyer, Richard Bailey

The Durango Kid (6) 6.6 1h 1min 1940 ALL The Durango Kid is a sort of Robin Hood of the West who helps the lovely Walters (who replaced Starrett's usual love-interest, Iris Meredith), the daughter of a homesteader, defeat the evil MacDonald who has been terrorizing the …
The sneaky Ruth Dorn is Steve's main suspect. "It's the Durango Kid!"