Young Bill Hickok

1940

Young Bill Hickok

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Movie Info

This Roy Rogers vehicle is a followup (though not a sequel) to 1940's Young Buffalo Bill. Definitely a "premature anti-fascist", singing frontiersman Bill Hickok (Roy Rogers) tries to thwart the takeover of West by foreign invaders. John Miljan is frontier fuhrer Nicholas Tower, who hires a gang of storm troopers-er, henchmen-to do his dirty work. Southern belle Louise Mason (Jacqueline Wells) initially aligns herself with Tower because he is ostensibly anti-Damyankee, but she finally turns against him when she realizes what he's up to. Calamity Jane also appears in the person of comic actress Sally Payne, while Gabby Hayes shows up as a character named-but of course-Gabby.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Classics, Western
Directed By:

Joseph Kane
Written By:

Norton S. Parker, Olive Cooper
In Theaters:

Oct 21, 1940 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Nov 4, 2003
Runtime:

54 minutes
Studio:

Republic

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Cast

Roy Rogers
as 'Wild' Bill Hickok

George 'Gabby' Hayes
as 'Gabby' Whitaker

John Miljan
as Nicholas Tower

Jacqueline Wells
as Louise Mason

Sally Payne
as Miss 'Calamity' Jane Canary

Monte Blue
as Marshal Evans

Archie Twitchell
as Phillip

Hal Taliaferro
as Morrell

Ethel Wales
as Mrs. Stout

Jack Ingram
as Red

Monte Montague
as Majors

Iron Eyes Cody
as Big Bear

Fred Burns
as Mr. Waddell

Frank Ellis
as Overland Stage Driver

Charles "Slim" Whitaker
as Raider

Jack Kirk
as Henchman Hays

Hank Bell
as Hank

Henry Wills
as Henchman/Indian Brave

Dick Elliott
as Elliott

William Desmond

John Elliott
as Army Doctor

Jack Rockwell
as Stage Driver

Bill Wolfe
as Townsman

Trigger the Horse

Tom Smith
as Hickok Rider

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Feb 17, 2012

Another Roy Rogers film made in 1940 by Republic Pictures so don't expect to much in the way of Fancy, I think western movies in this time frame were meant for people in the south and out west. In this one Roy plays a very young Wild Bill Hickok who helps the pony express and also helps a gold transfer that is robbed by a local saloon owner who also has ties to John Wilks Booth, in this movie we see the end of the civil war, Lincoln Assassinated and more, A black & white gem that can be seen for free on the internet as its a public domain film. My copy is part of a Mill Creek 20 film collection featuring Roy Rogers. 3 Stars.

Bruce B Super Reviewer