Starring Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Betty Jewel, Herbert Prior, Jim Corey
Directed by Arthur Rosson

Print: black/white
Runtime: 63 min.
Genre: western
Print Quality: B

No relation to the earlier John Ford western of the same name, The Last Outlaw was a
vehicle for Paramount's up-and-coming action star Gary Cooper. The actor is cast as
frontiersman Buddy Hale, who endeavors to prove that young Ward Lane (Jack Luden) is
innocent of murder. He does this primarily because he's fallen in love with Ward's pretty
sister Janet (Betty Jewel). But when Hale is appointed sheriff, he is obliged to track down
Ward and arrest the boy, convincing Janet that Hale has betrayed her brother. It turns out
that Ward was actually guilty, and that he's also the head of a vicious outlaw gang.
Ultimately, Ward expires in a hail of bullets, and Hale and Janet are reunited.