The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
Drilling daylight through killers!
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
- Date of release
- 1940-06-26
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Western
- Director
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Collection
- Wild Bill Saunders Collection
Casting
- Bill Elliott — Wild Bill Saunders
- Iris Meredith — Sammy Lou Griffin
- George Lloyd — Matt Kilgore
- Luana Walters — Kate Kilgore
- Edward LeSaint — Lige Saunders
- Frank LaRue — Ole Mitch
- Chuck Morrison — Henchman Bart
- Dub Taylor — Cannonball
- Buel Bryant — Henchman Deputy
- William Kellogg — Henchman Deputy Hep
- Francis Walker — Jake Kilgore
- Tex Cooper — Townsman
Interesting facts
The Return of Wild Bill is a 1940 American Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by Robert Lee Johnson and Fred Myton. The film stars Wild Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, George Lloyd, Luana Walters, Edward LeSaint and Frank LaRue. The film was released on June 27, 1940, by Columbia Pictures. It is the fourth and last in Columbia Pictures' series of four "Wild Bill Saunders" films, which began with The Taming of the West.
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