Starring Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn, Percy Kilbride, Lloyd Gough
Directed by George Sherman

Print: color
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

Worthless from a historical aspect, Black Bart is nonetheless an enjoyable fabrication
about the fabled Western outlaw. Rescued from a "necktie party," outlaws Charles E. Boles
(Dan Duryea) and Lance Hardeen (Jeffrey Lynn) decide that it would be best to part as
friends and go their separate ways. When next seen, Boles is a prosperous rancher who
supplements his income by robbing the Wells Fargo gold shipments under the alias of Black
Bart. Upon learning this, Hardeen rides back into Boles' life demanding a piece of the action.
Both of the hero-villains are foiled when they succumb to the charms of the bewitching
international courtesan Lola Montez (Yvonne DeCarlo). The story is related in
flashback-from a jail cell by the outlaws' erstwhile partner Jersey Brady (Percy Kilbride). Black Bart was remade in
1967 as Ride to Hangman's Tree.