The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
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 Monte Blue Carole Wayne Frankie Darro Dickie Jones
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline George Meehan
Editing by	Richard Fantl
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	30 June 1938 16 February 1949
Running time	15 chapters
Country	United States
Language	English
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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.

[edit] Plot

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.

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[edit] Cast

• Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok, U.S. Marshal. This serial was the source of actor Gordon Nance's subsequent screenname "Wild Bill" Elliot. He had previous worked under the name "Gordon Elliott".^[1]
• Monte Blue as Mr Cameron
• Carole Wayne as Ruth Cameron
• Frankie Darro as Jerry/Little Brave Heart
• Dickie Jones as Buddy
• Sammy McKim as Boots
• Kermit Maynard as Kit Lawson, Army scout
• Roscoe Ates as Oscar 'Snake-Eyes' Smith
• Monte Collins as Danny, printer
• Reed Hadley as Jim Blakely
• Chief Thundercloud as Chief Gray Eagle
• Ray Mala as Little Elk
• Robert Fiske as Morrell, villain and leader of the Phantom Raiders
• Walter Wills as Joshua Bruce
• J.P. McGowan as Scudder, trail Leader

[edit] Chapter titles

1. Law of the Gun
2. Stampede!
3. Blazing Terror
4. Mystery Canyon
5. Flaming Brands
6. The Apache Killer
7. Prowling Wolves
8. The Pit
9. Ambushed!
10. Savage Vengeance
11. Burning Waters
12. Desperation
13. Phantom Bullets
14. The Lure
15. Trail's End

[edit] Stunts

• Gene Alsace
• Chuck Hamilton
• Ted Mapes
• Carl Mathews
• Kermit Maynard
• Tom Steele
• Francis Walker

[edit] See also

• List of film serials by year
• List of film serials by studio

[edit] References

• The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] External links

• The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok at the Internet Movie Database