Fighting with Buffalo Bill

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Fighting With Buffalo Bill
Fighting with Buffalo Bill - 1926 - lobby card.jpg
Lobby card
Directed by Ray Taylor
Written by William F. Cody
George H. Plympton
William Lord Wright
Starring Wallace MacDonald
Elsa Benham
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • August 30, 1926 (1926-08-30)
CountryUnited States
Languages Silent
English intertitles

Fighting With Buffalo Bill is a 1926 American silent Western film serial directed by Ray Taylor for Universal Pictures. The film is now considered to be lost. [1]

Contents

Plot

Cast

Chapter titles

  1. Westward
  2. The Red Menace
  3. The Blazing Arrow
  4. The Death Trap
  5. The Renegade
  6. The Race for Life
  7. Buried Alive
  8. Desperate Chances
  9. The Shadow of Evil
  10. At the End of the Trail

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References

  1. "Progressive Silent Film List: Fighting With Buffalo Bill". silentera.com. Retrieved August 22, 2008.