''Roaring Frontiers'' is a 1941 American

Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...

film directed by

Lambert Hillyer Lambert Harwood Hillyer (July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter. Biography Lambert Harwood Hillyer was born July 8, 1893, in Tyner, Indiana. His mother was character actress Lydia Knott. A graduate of ...

and starring

Tex Ritter Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and ...

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 ...

and Ruth Ford.Parish & Pitts p.177

Plot

Cast

as Wild Bill Hickok *

as Tex Martin * Ruth Ford as Reba Bailey * Frank Mitchell as Cannonball * Bradley Page as Hawk Hammond * Tristram Coffin as Bert *

Hal Taliaferro Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...

as Link Twiddle * Francis Walker as Boot Hill - Henchman * Joe McGuinn as Knuckles - Henchman *

George Chesebro George Newell Chesebro (July 29, 1888 – May 28, 1959) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 400 films between 1915 and 1954. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial filmography * '' M ...

as Red - Bartender * Charles Stevens as Moccasin *

Hank Bell Hank Bell (January 21, 1892 – February 4, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 370 films between 1920 and 1950. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack A myo ...

as Hank - Stage driver *

Lew Meehan James Lew Meehan (September 7, 1890 – August 10, 1951) was an American film actor. Meehan appeared in more than 200 films between 1921 and 1947. He was often the main villain in silent Westerns, but in sound films he was usually an "anon ...

as Henchman

References

Bibliography

* Bond, Johnny. ''The Tex Ritter Story''. Chappell Music Company, 1976. *Parish, James Robert & Pitts, Michael R. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

* 1941 films 1941 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films Films directed by Lambert Hillyer Columbia Pictures films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{1940s-western-film-stub