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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

(1938)

Adventure / Serial / Western

In 1938, Bill Elliott was selected to play the lead in the Columbia serial The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, in which he made so positive an impression that he would be billed as 'Wild Bill' Elliott for the remainder of his cowboy career, even when his character name wasn't Bill. This serial finds Wild Bill Hickok, the U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, opposing the Phantom Raiders, a gang of renegades raiding the cattle drives over the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Abilene and a new railroad. Hickok organizes the boys of the town into the "Flaming Arrows" to assist him.

Cast:

William 'Wild Bill' Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok, U.S. Marshal
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
Eddie Waller as Stone