Wild West Days

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Wild West Days
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Poster advertising the fourth installment
Directed by Ford Beebe
Clifford Smith
Written by Wyndham Gittens
Norman S. Hall
Ray Trampe
W. R. Burnett (novel)
Produced by Ben Koenig
Henry MacRae
Starring Johnny Mack Brown
George Shelley
Lynn Gilbert
Frank Yaconelli
Bob Kortman
Russell Simpson
Walter Miller
Cinematography Richard Fryer
Edited by Saul A. Goodkind
Louis Sackin
Alvin Todd
Music by Charles Previn
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • July 5, 1937 (1937-07-05)
Running time
268 minutes
(13 episodes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Wild West Days (1937) is a Universal film serial based on a Western novel by W. R. Burnett. Directed by Ford Beebe and Clifford Smith and starring Johnny Mack Brown, George Shelley, Lynn Gilbert, Frank Yaconelli, Bob Kortman, Russell Simpson, and Walter Miller, it was the 103rd of the studio's 137 serials (and the 35th with sound), and was the first of three serials Brown made for the studio before being promoted to his own B-western series in 1939.

Contents

Premise

Larry and Lucy Munro own a ranch with a rich platinum deposit. Newspaper editor Matt Keeler as the head of a gang called "Secret Seven" wants the ranch for himself and has Larry framed for murder to get it. Frontiersman Kentucky Wade - with his pals Dude Hanford, Mike Morales and Trigger Benton - come to the Munros' aid.

Cast

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 Wayt Johnson as in the novel. [1]

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: [2]

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Preceded by Universal Serial
Wild West Days(1937)
Succeeded by
Radio Patrol (1937)