''Wildfire'', also known as ''Wildfire: The Story of a Horse'' in the United Kingdom, is a 1945 American
Cinecolor
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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
Robert Emmett Tansey
Robert Emmett Tansey (June 28, 1897 – June 17, 1951) was an American actor, screenwriter, film producer and director. He was active in cinema in various roles from the 1910s to the 1950s. He was sometimes credited as Robert E. Tansey or Rober ...
and starring Bob Steele.
It was an early film production from
Robert L. Lippert.
Cast
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Bob Steele as "Happy" Haye
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Sterling Holloway
Sterling Price Holloway Jr. (January 4, 1905 – November 22, 1992) was an American actor and voice actor who appeared in over 100 films and 40 television shows. He did voice acting for The Walt Disney Company, playing Mr. Stork in ''Dumbo'', Ad ...
as "Alkali" Jones
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John Miljan
John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1924 and 1958.
Biography
Born in 1892, Miljan was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four deca ...
as Pete Fanning
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Eddie Dean as Sheriff Johnny Deal
*Virginia Maples as Judy Gordon
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Sarah Padden as Aunt Agatha
*Gene Alsace as Henchman Buck Perry
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Francis Ford as Ezra Mills
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William Farnum
William Farnum (July 4, 1876 – June 5, 1953) was an American actor. He was a star of American silent film cinema and became one of the highest-paid actors during that time.
Biography
Farnum was born on July 4, 1876, in Boston, Massachus ...
as Judge Polson
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William 'Wee Willie' Davis
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...
as Henchman Moose Harris
Soundtrack
* Eddie Dean – "On the Banks of the Sunny San Juan" (Written by
Glenn Strange and Eddie Dean)
* Eddie Dean – "By the Sleepy Rio Grande"
References
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1945 films
1940s English-language films
1945 Western (genre) films
Films about horses
Cinecolor films
American Western (genre) films
Lippert Pictures films
Films directed by Robert Emmett Tansey
1940s American films
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