The Badlanders
“A treasure to steal...a woman to win...a past to forget...”
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Genres
Western, Crime, Drama, Romance
Studio
Arcola Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Badlanders performed
Budget
$1.4M
Worldwide Gross
$2.0M
Gross Profit
$579,000
Return
1.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$353K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~50/50, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Western) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Peter Van Hoek (The Dutchman)
Alan Ladd
Peter Van Hoek (The Dutchman)
John McBain
Ernest Borgnine
John McBain
Anita
Katy Jurado
Anita
Ada Winton
Claire Kelly
Ada Winton
Cyril Lounsberry
Kent Smith
Cyril Lounsberry
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Nehemiah Persoff
Vincente (The Powder Monkey)
Sample
Robert Emhardt
Sample
Comanche
Anthony Caruso
Comanche
Deputy Leslie
Adam Williams
Deputy Leslie
Yuma Prison Warden
Ford Rainey
Yuma Prison Warden
Lee
John Daheim
Lee
Miner (uncredited)
Jack Perkins
Miner (uncredited)
If you liked The Badlanders
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
3:10 to Yuma
1957
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
The Way West
1967
The Magnificent Seven
1960
One-Eyed Jacks
1961