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The Return of Wild Bill (1940)

The Return of Wild Bill poster
Directed by
Joseph H. Lewis
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawman known as Wild Bill returns to a town to enforce order. He faces off against outlaws and corrupt locals.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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