Street Bandits

Republic Pictures provided many of those grade B movies, westerns and crime, most of them all made on the same frame with no particular movie better than the other. The Republic Pictures trade mark was action sequences, a domain where the studio monitored everything, thanks to its serial department. Republic Pictures made the best action packed serials of all times, and this "talent" was also used for regular films. After all why not? Here, I was excited to see Roy Barcroft as the villain, of course, as good as he was in many Republic serials. His face, his heavy set built, his presence has always delighted me in such movies, far far far more than the ever bland hero that we forget just after the ending credits. This one is not bad at all, and above all it's not long, under the hour length. As Harry Keller and Thomas Carr, Philip Ford, George Blair, RG Sringsteen was a chain B movies maker in the late forties and early fifties for the Republic Studios. But his fellow directors were more focused on westerns.