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Riders of the Timberline (1941)

Riders of the Timberline poster
Directed by
Lesley Selander
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
59 min
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cowboy named Hopalong Cassidy helps someone out in the old west. There are fights and chases with horses and a steam powered machine.

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What happens

Riders of the Timberline is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by J. Benton Cheney. The film stars William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Tom Tyler, Brad King, Victor Jory, Eleanor Stewart, J. Farrell MacDonald and Anna Q. Nilsson. The film was released on September 17, 1941, by Paramount Pictures. This entry is the first in the Hopalong Cassidy (film series) to feature Brad King as Johnny Nelson, replacing Russell Hayden as Lucky Jenkins. Certain action sequences in the film feature the use of a Steam Donkey. This was the 38th entry in the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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