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Western
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film directed by
Lewis D. Collins and starring
Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
,
Myron Healey
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and
Phyllis Coates
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.
[Blottner p.48] The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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Dave Milton
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. It was shot at the
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Plot
Cast
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Wild Bill Elliott
Wild Bill Elliott (born Gordon Nance, October 16, 1904 – November 26, 1965) was an American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of B Westerns, particularly the Red Ryder series of films.
Early life
Elliott was born Gor ...
as Bill Martin
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Myron Healey
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career sp ...
as Red Olsen
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Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927) is an American former actress, with a career spanning over fifty years. She is best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film ''Superman and the Mole Men'' and ...
as Kathy MacKenzie
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Fuzzy Knight
John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight (May 9, 1901 – February 23, 1976) was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, especially in his early career. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1928 and 1967, usually as a cowboy h ...
as Tad Sloan
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Arthur Space
Charles Arthur Space (October 12, 1908 – January 13, 1983) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was best known as Doc Weaver, the veterinarian, in thirty-nine episodes of the CBS television series ''Lassie''.
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as Austin
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Jack Ingram
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as MacKenzie - Rancher
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Robert J. Wilke
Robert Joseph Wilke (May 18, 1914 – March 28, 1989) was an American film and television actor noted primarily for his roles as villains, mostly in Westerns.
Early years
Wilke was a native of Cincinnati. Before going into acting, he h ...
as Link - Henchman
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Terry Frost
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as Alvord - Henchman
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Robert Bray
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as Ed Murdock
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Denver Pyle
Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director. He was well known for a number of TV roles from the 1960s through the 1980s, including his portrayal of Briscoe Darling Jr. in se ...
as Carey
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Tim Ryan as Sam
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Florence Lake
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as Maggie
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Stanley Andrews
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as Judge Bruce
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Richard Reeves as Bartender
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Gene Roth
Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth (January 8, 1903 – July 19, 1976), known profesionally as Gene Roth, was an American film actor and film manager.
Early years
Roth was born in Redfield, South Dakota. He was the son of a German father and ...
as Blacksmith
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I. Stanford Jolley as Farmer
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House Peters Jr. as Bill Martin's Brother
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Buddy Roosevelt
Buddy Roosevelt (born Kenneth Stanhope Sanderson; June 25, 1898 – October 6, 1973) was an American film and television actor and stunt performer from Hollywood's early silent film years through the 1950s.
Biography
Roosevelt was born as Kenn ...
as Henchman
References
Bibliography
* Blottner, Gene. ''Wild Bill Elliott: A Complete Filmography''. McFarland, 2010.
* Martin, Len D. ''The Allied Artists Checklist: The Feature Films and Short Subjects of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1947-1978''. McFarland & Company, 1993.
External links
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1952 films
1952 Western (genre) films
1950s English-language films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Lewis D. Collins
Monogram Pictures films
American black-and-white films
Films scored by Raoul Kraushaar
Films with screenplays by Joseph F. Poland
1950s American films
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