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Prairie Stranger (1941)

Prairie Stranger poster
Directed by
Lambert Hillyer
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
58 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor rides into a frontier town and gets drawn into local conflicts. He uses his medical skills and wits to help the townspeople.

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What happens

Prairie Stranger is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Winston Miller. It is based on the 1936 novel The Medico Rides the Trail by James L. Rubel. The film stars Charles Starrett, Cliff Edwards, Patti McCarty, Forbes Murray, Frank LaRue and Archie R. Twitchell. The film was released on September 18, 1941, by Columbia Pictures. The film is the third in the "Medico" series, which includes The Medico of Painted Springs and Thunder Over the Prairie, released earlier that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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