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Prairie Schooners
''Prairie Schooners'' is a 1940 American Western film directed by Sam Nelson, and stars Wild Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, and Dub Taylor. It is the first in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by '' Beyond the Sacramento''. Plot Cast * Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok * Evelyn Young as Virginia Benton * Dub Taylor as Cannonball * Kenneth Harlan as Dalton Stull * Ray Teal as Wolf Tanner * Bob Burns as Jim Gibbs * Netta Packer as Cora Gibbs * Richard Fiske as Adams * Edmund Cobb as Rusty * Jim Thorpe James Francis Thorpe (; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional American football, football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was ... as Chief Sanche Film series ''Prairie Schooners'' is the first film in Columbia's series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" movies. They include: # ''Prairie Schooners'' (Sept 1940) # '' Beyond the Sacram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Nelson
Sam Nelson (1896–1963) was an American film director who worked from the end of the silent era through the early 1960s. While most of his film work was in the assistant director role, he did direct over twenty films during the 1930s and 1940s, all of which were Westerns. As an assistant director, he worked on such productions as '' Pennies from Heaven'', ''And Then There Were None'', ''All the King's Men'', the original '' 3:10 to Yuma'', ''Some Like It Hot'', ''A Raisin in the Sun'', and ''Spartacus''. In addition, he appeared in over a dozen films in small acting roles. Filmography (Per AFI database) Director * '' Outlaws of the Prairie'' (1937) * '' Cattle Raiders'' (1938) * '' Law of the Plains'' (1938) * '' West of Cheyenne'' (1938) * '' The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'' (1938) * '' South of Arizona'' (1938) * '' The Colorado Trail'' (1938) * '' West of the Santa Fe'' (1938) * ''Rio Grande'' (1938) * '' Law of the Plains'' (1938) * '' North of the Yukon'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thorpe
James Francis Thorpe (; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional American football, football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native Americans in the United States, Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in pentathlon#Athletics pentathlons, classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He List of stripped Olympic medals, lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the contemporary Olympic Games#Amateurism and professionalism, amateurism rules. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals with replicas, after ruli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Western (genre) Films
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1940 Films
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Prairie Gunsmoke
''Prairie Gunsmoke'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Fred Myton. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Frank Mitchell, Virginia Carroll, Hal Price and Tris Coffin. The film was released on July 16, 1942, by Columbia Pictures. It is the twelfth and final film in Columbia Pictures' "Wild Bill Hickok" series. Plot Cast *Wild Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok *Tex Ritter as Tex Terrell * Frank Mitchell as Cannonball *Virginia Carroll as Lucy Wade *Hal Price as Henry Wade *Tris Coffin Tristram Chockley Coffin (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a former film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in Westerns or other B-movie action-adventure productions. Early years Coffin's mother wa ... as Jim Kelton *Joe McGuinn as Spike Allen *Frosty Royce as Sam *Rick Anderson as Dan Whipple References External links * {{Lambert Hillyer 1942 films American Western (genre) films 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Trail (1942 Film)
''The Devil's Trail'' is a 1919 American silent drama film that is set in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. It was directed by Stuart Paton and stars Betty Compson.Progressive Silent Film List: ''The Devil's Trail'' at silentera.com It is not known whether the film currently survives. /ref> Plot As described in a film magazine,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lone Star Vigilantes
''The Lone Star Vigilantes'' is a 1942 American Western film directed by Wallace Fox and written by Luci Ward. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Frank Mitchell, Virginia Carpenter, Luana Walters and Budd Buster. The film was released on January 1, 1942, by Columbia Pictures. It is the ninth in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by '' Bullets for Bandits''. Plot Cast *Wild Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok *Tex Ritter as Tex Martin * Frank Mitchell as Cannonball *Virginia Carpenter as Sherry Monroe * Luana Walters as Marcia Banning *Budd Buster as Colonel Sam Monroe *Forrest Taylor as Dr. Mark Banning * Gavin Gordon as Major Halland Clark *Lowell Drew as Peabody *Edmund Cobb as Sergeant Charley Cobb *Ethan Laidlaw Ethan Allen Laidlaw (November 25, 1899 – May 25, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films and made more than 500 appearances on television, mainly uncredited in Westerns, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roaring Frontiers
''Roaring Frontiers'' is a 1941 American western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Tex Ritter, Wild Bill Elliott and Ruth Ford. It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is the eighth in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by '' The Lone Star Vigilantes''. Plot Cast * Wild Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok * Tex Ritter as Tex Martin * Ruth Ford as Reba Bailey * Frank Mitchell as Cannonball * Bradley Page as Hawk Hammond * Tristram Coffin as Bert * Hal Taliaferro as Link Twiddle * Francis Walker as Boot Hill - Henchman * Joe McGuinn as Knuckles - Henchman * George Chesebro as Red - Bartender * Charles Stevens as Moccasin * Hank Bell 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 ... a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Dodge City
''King of Dodge City'' is a 1941 American western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Gerald Geraghty. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter, Judith Linden, Dub Taylor, Guy Usher and Rick Anderson. The film was released on August 14, 1941, by Columbia Pictures. It is the seventh in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by ''Roaring Frontiers''. Plot Cast *Wild Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok *Tex Ritter as Tex Rawlings *Judith Linden as Janice Blair *Dub Taylor as Cannonball Taylor *Guy Usher as Morgan King *Rick Anderson as Judge Lynch *Kenneth Harlan as Jeff Carruthers *Pierce Lyden as Reynolds *Francis Walker as Carney *Harrison Greene as Stephen Kimball *Jack Rockwell Jack Rockwell Trowbridge (October 6, 1890 – November 10, 1947) was an American film actor who was born in Mexico. He appeared in over 250 movies, mostly Westerns, between 1927 and 1947. Rockwell's older brother was character actor Charles . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hands Across The Rockies
''Hands Across the Rockies'' is a 1941 American western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Dub Taylor and Kenneth MacDonald. It is the sixth in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by ''King of Dodge City''. Plot Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) and Cannonball (Dub Taylor) help two young people in love (Mary Daily and Stanley Brown) and bring the murderer ( Kenneth MacDonald) of Cannonball's father to justice. Cast * Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok * Mary Daily as Marsha Crawley * Dub Taylor as Cannonball Taylor * Kenneth MacDonald as Juneau Jessup * Frank LaRue as Rufe Crawley * Donald Curtis as Dade Crawley * Tom Moray as Hi Crawley * Stanley Brown as Johnny Peale * Slim Whitaker as Marshal Bemis * Harrison Greene as Abel Finney * Art Mix as Red - Henchman * Eddy Waller as Judge Plunkett * Hugh Prosser Hugh Prosser (March 2, 1907 – November 8, 1952) was a Hollywood actor who appeared in over 90 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
