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Director
  
Ford Beebe

Music director
  
Charles Previn

Cinematography
  
Richard Fryer

Language
  
English

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Western

Producer
  
Henry MacRae

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Wild West Days movie poster

Writer
  
Wyndham Gittens
,
Norman S. Hall
,
Ray Trampe
,
W. R. Burnett

Release date
  
5 July 1937

Cast
  
Johnny Mack Brown
(Kentucky Wade),
George Shelley
(Dude Hanford),
Lynn Gilbert
(Lucy Munro),
Frank Yaconelli
(Mike Morales),
Bob Kortman
(Trigger Benton),
Russell Simpson
(Matt Keeler)

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Wild West Days (1937) is a Universal film serial based on a western novel by W. R. Burnett. It was the 103rd of the studio's 137 serials (and the 35th with sound).

Contents

Plot

Larry and Lucy Munro own a hidden gold mine. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler wants the mine for himself and has Larry framed for to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid.

Cast

  • Johnny Mack Brown as Kentucky Wade, frontiersman and ex-lawman
  • George Shelley as Dude Hanford, one of Wade's sidekicks
  • Lynn Gilbert as Lucy Munro
  • Frank Yaconelli as Mike Morales, one of Wade's sidekicks
  • Bob Kortman as Trigger Benton, one of Wade's sidekicks
  • Russell Simpson as Matt Keeler, villainous editor of The Brimstone News and member of the Secret Seven
  • Walter Miller as Doc Hardy, an old friend of Wade
  • Charles Stevens as Buckskin Frank, one of Keeler's henchmen
  • Frank McGlynn Jr. as Larry Munro, goldmine owner framed by Keeler
  • Francis McDonald as Assayer Purvis, member of the Secret Seven
  • Al Bridge as Steve Claggett, one of Keeler's henchmen
  • Chief Thunderbird as Chief Red Hatchet, one of Keeler's henchmen
  • Robert McClung as Harmonica Kid
  • Edward LeSaint as Sheriff
  • Joseph W. Girard as Judge Lawrence

    • Production

    This serial was based on the novel "Saint Johnson" by William R. Burnett. However, the main character in the serial is a frontiersman called Kentucky Wade instead of Saint Johnson as in the novel.

    Chapter titles

    1. Death Rides the Range
    2. The Redskins' Revenge
    3. The Brink of Doom
    4. The Indians Are Coming
    5. The Leap for Life
    6. Death Stalks the Plains
    7. Six Gun Law
    8. The Gold Stampede
    9. Walls of Fire
    10. The Circle of Doom
    11. The Thundering Herd
    12. Rustlers and Redskins
    13. The Rustlers' Roundup

    Source:

    References

    Wild West Days Wikipedia
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    Wild West Days IMDb Wild West Days themoviedb.org