The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | |
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Directed by |
Sam Nelson Mack V. Wright |
Produced by |
Jack Fier Harry S. Webb (associate producer) |
Written by |
John Peere Miles George Rosener George Arthur Durlam Dallas M. Fitzgerald Tom Gibson Charles Arthur Powell |
Starring |
Bill Elliott (as Gordon Elliott) Monte Blue Carole Wayne Frankie Darro Dickie Jones |
Cinematography |
Benjamin H. Kline George Meehan |
Edited by | Richard Fantl |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date
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Running time
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15 chapters |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938) is a Columbia movie serial. It was the fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia and their first western serial. The serial was the first from a new production company, the previous three serials had been produced by Weiss Brothers.
Wild Bill Hickok, U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, is sent to stop the mysterious "Phantom Riders" from disrupting the cattle drives across the Chisholm Trail and construction of a new railroad.
The serial was shot in Johnson Canyon, Three Lakes, and Parry Lodge in Utah.
The Motion Picture Herald called this serial "a compliment to its title."
The name of Wild Bill Hickok stuck with Bill Elliot so much that Columbia made a series of Hickok westerns with him.
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