The Cyclone Kid is a 1942 American Western film directed by George Sherman and written by Richard Murphy. The film stars Don "Red" Barry, John James, Lynn Merrick, Alex Callam, Joel Friedkin and Slim Andrews. The film was released on May 31, 1942, by Republic Pictures.
Two estranged brothers in Dakota territory in the Old West, one a hired gun known as "The Cyclone Kid", join forces with a band of homesteaders to challenge a cattle baron named Big Jim Johnson who has poisoned the town's water to force the ranchers to sell their land to him.