Young Bill Hickok

• Director: Joseph Kane
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Western
• Movie Type: Traditional Western, Musical Western
• Themes: Vigilantes, Taming the West, Prospectors and Land Rights
• Main Cast: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, John Miljan, Sally Payne
• Release Year: 1940
• Country: US
• Run Time: 54 minutes

Plot

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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Roy Rogers - Bill Hickok
• George "Gabby" Hayes - "Gabby"
• John Miljan - Nicholas Tower
• Sally Payne - Calamity Jane

Archie Twitchell - Phillip; Monte Blue - Marshal Evans; Hal Taliaferro - Morrell; Ethel Wales - Mrs. Stout; Jack Ingram - Red; Monte Montague - Major; Hank Bell; Iron Eyes Cody; William Desmond; Dick Elliott; Frank Ellis; Jack Kirk; Jack Rockwell; Trigger the Horse; Wally Wales; Jacqueline Wells - Louise Mason; Charles "Slim" Whitaker; Henry Wills; Bill Wolfe; Fred Burns; Tom Smith; John Elliott

Credit

Joseph Kane - Director, Les Orlebeck - Editor, Cy Feuer - Musical Direction/Supervision, William Nobles - Cinematographer, Joseph Kane - Producer, Olive Cooper - Screenwriter, Norton S. Parker - Screenwriter

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