Biography: Lambert Hillyer |
Before giving the "flickers" a try in 1917, writer/director Lambert Hillyer had been everything from a vaudeville performer to a journalist. Hillyer was trained for a directorial career at Inceville, the eminent domain of silent-movie mogul Thomas... more
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Thunder over the Prairie (1941)
Cast: Danny Mummert
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
Thunder Over the Prairie was the second of Charles Starrett's "Dr. Steve Monroe" westerns. The unorthodox plot is set in motion by an evil land baron (Donald Curtis) who uses the local Indians as laborers, then finds legal methods to cheat them of...
Cast: Charles Starrett The Sons of the Pioneers
Length: 61min
Pinto Kid was one of Charles Starrett's last "formula" westerns before he permanently assumed the screen guise of the Durango Kid. The story takes places just after the Civil War, with hostilities between Yanks and Rebels still in effect between...
Cast: Cliff Edwards Forbes Murray Frank LaRue
Tags: Western
Length: 58min
Charles Starrett is once more cast as frontier doctor Steve Monroe in Columbia's Prairie Stranger. In the company of his comic sidekick, mail-order intern Bones (Cliff Edwards), Dr. Monroe sets up his shingle in a small Nevada town. When business is...
The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)
Cast: Kenneth MacDonald Lloyd Bridges
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Bill Elliot took time out from his "Wild Bill Hickok" westerns series to essay the title role in Son of Davy Crockett. During the Reconstruction era, Davy Jr. (Elliot) is hired by President Grant (Harrison Greene) to convince the residents of a small...
Cast: Dub Taylor
Length: 58min
Wild Bill Hickock (William Elliott), aka The Peaceable Man, meters out justice in the tough town of Deadwood in this highly fictional western from Columbia. Unlike the historic character, Elliott's gunfighter survives his encounter with the South...
The Return of Daniel Boone (1941)
Cast: Walter Soderling
Tags: Western
Length: 61min
Having previously portrayed Wild Bill Hickok on screen, cowboy hero Bill Elliot impersonates another famed frontiersman in The Return of Daniel Boone. Somehow finding himself in the 19th century west, Daniel Boone takes on a pair of clever crooks, one...
Cast: Tex Ritter
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 62min
In their second of eight co-starring westerns for Columbia Pictures, William "Wild Bill" Elliott and Tex Ritter were joined by veteran comedian Frank Mitchell, who replaced the departing Dub Taylor as comic sidekick "Cannonball." Vowing to avenge the...
Tags: Musical Western Western
Length: 63min
Columbia's King of Dodge City was the first of several westerns costarring "Wild Bill" Elliot and singing cowboy Tex Ritter. Though Elliot is billed first, the plot and action are evenly divided between the two B-picture favorites. The story takes...
Hands Across the Rockies (1941)
Length: 55min
As Wild Bill Hickok and sidekick Cannonball stalk a murderer, they encounter the killer's fiancee. ~ All Movie Guide
Tags: Western
Length: 59min
Wild Bill Hickok is once more impersonated by Will Bill Elliot in the Columbia western Wildcat of Tucson. This time, Hickok is saddled with an irresponsible brother named Dave (Stanley Brown). Falling in with a bad crowd, Dave ends up victimized by...
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