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Wounded and on the run, gunfighter Quirt Evans collapses at the door of a Quaker family and wakes up in a world that doesn’t believe in guns. John Wayne’s first film as producer — written and directed by James Edward Grant — casts him as a notorious badman slowly disarmed by Penelope Worth (Gail Russell), the quiet young woman who nurses him back to health. Outlaw rivals still want him dead, the marshal still wants him in irons, and Quirt has to decide whether love and a plow are worth more than the draw that made his name. A Republic Western with an unusually gentle heart, Angel and the Badman is Wayne playing against his own legend: the killer who might actually put the gun down.
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Sign in to startWounded and on the run, gunfighter Quirt Evans collapses at the door of a Quaker family and wakes up in a world that doesn’t believe in guns. John Wayne’s first film as producer — written and directed by James Edward Grant — casts him as a notorious badman slowly disarmed by Penelope Worth (Gail Russell), the quiet young woman who nurses him back to health. Outlaw rivals still want him dead, the marshal still wants him in irons, and Quirt has to decide whether love and a plow are worth more than the draw that made his name. A Republic Western with an unusually gentle heart, Angel and the Badman is Wayne playing against his own legend: the killer who might actually put the gun down.