Across the Sierras

February. 13,1941      
Rating:
5.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.

Bill Elliott as  Wild Bill Hickok
Richard Fiske as  Larry Armstrong
Luana Walters as  Anne Woodworth
Dub Taylor as  Cannonball
Dick Curtis as  Mitch Carew
LeRoy Mason as  Stringer
John Dilson as  Dan Woodworth
Milton Kibbee as  Sheriff (as Milt Kibbee)
Ralph Peters as  Hobie
Edmund Cobb as  Mac Fawcett

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Reviews

ThiefHott
1941/02/13

Too much of everything

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Sexyloutak
1941/02/14

Absolutely the worst movie.

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MoPoshy
1941/02/15

Absolutely brilliant

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Brenda
1941/02/16

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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dougdoepke
1941/02/17

Happily, this is not strictly a formula western despite the earmarks. Instead it's got some unexpected twists that might surprise the viewer. Plus, of course, Bill Elliott as Wild Bill Hickok, one of the few matinée heroes who could growl, and make you believe it. Then too, there's tubby Dub Taylor as fairly amusing comic relief, and the sculpted Luana Walters as eye candy. Also, I can't help noticing that Richard Fiske, as the wayward Larry, was one of the few Hollywood actors k.i.a. during WWII. The industry should have commemorated these guys in some fashion.Anyway, the screenplay contains a pretty good story, where Bill is trying to save Larry from the clutches of bad guy Carew. There may not be much hard riding, or fast shooting, or eye- catching scenery. But it maybe the only matinée where the knock-down drag-out fist fight is between two bad guys! All in all, however, the 60-minutes amounts to generally superior matinée fare.

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bkoganbing
1941/02/18

Bill Elliott played Wild Bill Hickok in many westerns so much so that he was billed as Wild Bill Elliott in films like Across The Sierras. But anything that any of these films have to do with the real Hickok is purely coincidental. Across The Sierras is one of thousands of westerns that take a real historical character and write a fictional story around him.In the case of Across The Sierras it's more like they took a western classic and adapted into this film. Any western fiction fan or film fan will spot elements of The Virginian in the plot of this B western. Elliott as Hickok has a young friend in Richard Fiske whom he is pulling out of trouble and warns him he's flirting with death or prison should Fiske not mend his ways. After Fiske starts hanging out with an especially murderous outlaw in Dick Curtis, Elliott accidentally kills Fiske and goes through grievous remorse. At the urging of Luana Walters Elliott considers becoming a peaceable man for real and hanging up his guns. But when Curtis challenges Elliott there's only one answer for a cowboy hero.Across The Sierras has a few more adult themes in this than the normal B western market that Elliott was appealing to at this time. It holds up pretty well today.

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