The Bum Bandit is a animated short film created by the Fleischer Studios in 1931 as part of the Talkartoon series.

Plot

Bimbo prepares to rob a train that he has forced to stop. He then sings "The Holdup Rag." A ferocious bearded cowboy emerges, eats the barrel of Bimbo's gun, and, pulling off his beard and costume, reveals himself to in fact be his wife Dangerous Nan McGrew

Dangerous Nan McGrew

Dangerous Nan McGrew is a 1930 American comedy starring Helen Kane and Victor Moore.-Story:Helen Kane takes lead role and stars as Dangerous Nan Mcgrew, an entertainer in a travelling medicine show run by her boss. Muldoon one of the members of the medicine show is a fugitive who is on the run from...

, whom he had abandoned. She then throws Bimbo into the locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

, disconnects it from the rest of the train, and they drive off.

External links

• The Bum Bandit at IMDB
• The Bum Bandit at bcdb