How Long Is “The Durango Kid”?

In The Durango Kid, western hero Charles Starrett adopted the on-screen persona that would enable him to successfully sustain his film career well into the 1950s. Starrett is cast as Bill Lowry, a wandering cavalier who comes to the rescue of a group of imperiled homesteaders. Aiding Lowry in his efforts to thwart the activities of the land-baron villains is a mysterious masked rider known only as The Durango Kid. In this film, the fact that Lowry and Durango are one in the same is kept secret from the audience; this "mystery" angle would be dispensed with in future installments, when Starrett's "Durango Kid" alter ego was firmly established. An uneven effort, The Durango Kid is hampered by a few unrealistically staged fistfights between hero Starrett and heavy Kenneth MacDonald.