Death Valley Gunfighter is a 1949 American Western film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Robert Creighton Williams. The film stars Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, James Nolan, Gail Davis, William "Bill" Henry, Harry Harvey, Sr. and Mauritz Hugo. The film was released on March 29, 1949, by Republic Pictures.

Plot

A wagonload of quicksilver on its way from the Lucky Brothers Mine to Panamint Wells is raided by the Death Valley Gang, the third shipment to be stolen in two months. At the mine the 2 remaining brothers, ailing Les and crotchety Nugget, are about to tell the miners their pay is ready when the bandits arrive. When Les starts to cough he reaches for a handkerchief and is shot and killed. Sheriff Keith Ames, who is courting the brothers' niece Trudy, whose father was also murdered by outlaws, sends for Rocky Lane, who was a friend of Keith's father, to help sort out the trouble.