''Adventures in Silverado'' is a 1948 American
Western
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film directed by
Phil Karlson and written by Kenneth Gamet, Tom Kilpatrick and Jo Pagano. The film stars
William Bishop,
Gloria Henry,
Edgar Buchanan
William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Green Acres'', and ''The ...
,
Forrest Tucker
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided fund ...
,
Edgar Barrier
Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on '' The Saint'' ...
and
Irving Bacon. The film was released on March 25, 1948, by
Columbia Pictures
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.
Plot
Silverado is a faraway land where simple folk, reckless cowboys and tough outlaws alike seek to go. But not everyone can get there - the long journey is fraught with many dangers. Only he who manages not to lose heart in a difficult moment, who is only the fastest and bravest can see Silverado.
Cast
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William Bishop as Bill Foss
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Gloria Henry as Jeannie Manning
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Edgar Buchanan
William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the ''Petticoat Junction'', ''Green Acres'', and ''The ...
as Dr. H. C. Henderson
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Forrest Tucker
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided fund ...
as Zeke Butler
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Edgar Barrier
Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen. In the 1930s he was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre and was one of several actors who played Simon Templar on '' The Saint'' ...
as Robert Louis Stevenson
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Irving Bacon as Jake Willis
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Joseph Crehan
Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in ''Union Paci ...
as E.J. McHugh
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Paul E. Burns
Paul E. Burns (January 26, 1881 – May 17, 1967) was an American actor, who had a very lengthy career on film and television, although mostly in bit parts.
He played Ebenezer Hawkins in ''Son of Paleface'' (1952), Latitude Bucket in ''The Ro ...
as Sam Perkins
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Patti Brady as Lucy
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Fred F. Sears as Hatfield
*Joe Wong as Tim Quong
*Charles Cane as Sheriff
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Eddy Waller
Edward Carlingford Waller (June 14, 1889 – August 20, 1977) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Early years
Born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, he was a son of the Rev. Thomas M. Waller, a Presbyterian minister, and Anna Ta ...
as Will Thatcher
*Netta Packer as Mrs. Thatcher
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Trevor Bardette
Trevor Bardette (born Terva Gaston Hubbard; November 19, 1902 – November 28, 1977) was an American film and television actor. Among many other roles in his long and prolific career, Bardette appeared in several episodes of '' Adventures of S ...
as Mike
References
External links
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{{Phil Karlson
1948 films
1940s English-language films
American Western (genre) films
1948 Western (genre) films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Phil Karlson
American black-and-white films
Revisionist Western (genre) films
1940s American films