''Perils of the Wilderness'' is a 1956 American
Western
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serial film
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directed by
Spencer Gordon Bennet
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Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Benne ...
and starring
Dennis Moore.
Plot
U.S. Deputy Marshal Dan Lawson teams with
RCMP
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Sergeant Gray to go undercover and capture the nefarious smuggler Bart Randall. Lawson, posing as an outlaw called Laramie, is ready to infiltrate the gang led by Randall, who is wanted for murder and bank robbery in the United States. In addition to the difficulties inherent in the mission, Lawson must deal with other issues, including the use of a fake totem and flying a hydra plane to awe the menacing Indians and renegade whites. He is aided in his search by Donna Blaine, who is suspected at first of giving information to Randall, but who is really a Canadian secret agent investigating Randall's illegal gun trading with the Indians.
Cast
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Dennis Moore as Deputy Marshal Dan Mason, a.k.a. Laramie
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Richard Emory
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as Sergeant Gray
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Evelyn Finley
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Biography
Born in Douglas, Arizona, Finley ...
as Donna Blaine (as Eve Anderson)
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Kenneth MacDonald as Bart Randall (as Keeneth R. MacDonald)
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Rick Vallin
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Born in Feodosia, in the Crimea, Russia, Vallin came to the United States at age there ...
as Little Bear
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John Elliott as Homer Lynch
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Don C. Harvey
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Life
Born in Council Grove in Morris County in east central Kansas, Harvey began his acting career by performing on radio and in tent shows and ...
as Kruger
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Terry Frost
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as Batiste
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Al Ferguson
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Born in County Wexford, Ireland, he appeared in nearly 300 films between 1912 and 1956. Billed as Smoke Ferguson, by 1912 he was making Westerns for Selig ...
as Mike
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Bud Osborne
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Biography
Osborne was born Miles Osborne in Knox County, Texas, ...
as Jake
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Rex Lease
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Biography
Lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking O ...
as Sergeant Jim Rodney
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Pierce Lyden
Pierce W. Lyden (January 8, 1908 – October 10, 1998) was an American actor best known for his work in television and film Westerns.
Early life
Lyden was born in a sod house on a ranch near Hildreth, Nebraska on January 8, 1908. The son of a hor ...
as Amby
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John Mitchum
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Early years ...
as Brent
Chapter titles
# The Voice from the Sky
# The Mystery Plane
# The Mine of Menace
# Ambush for a Mountie
# Laramie's Desperate Chance
# Trapped in the Flaming Forest
# Out of the Trap
# Laramie Rides Alone
# Menace of the Medicine Man
# Midnight Marauders
# The Falls of Fate
# Rescue from the Rapids
# Little Bear Pays a Debt
# The Mystery Plane Flies Again
# Laramie Gets His Man
See also
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List of American films of 1956
A list of American films released in 1956
''Around the World in 80 Days'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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See also
* 1956 in the United States
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References
External links
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Cinefania.com*
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