Topeka

A TRAIL OF GUNSMOKE DREW HIM TO TOPEKA!

Topeka — Plot

Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.

• Release date
• August 9, 1953
• Runtime
• 69 min
• Genres
• Western
• Director
• Thomas Carr

Topeka — Cast

Bill Elliott Jim Levering Phyllis Coates Marian Harrison Rick Vallin Ray Hammond Fuzzy Knight Pop Harrison John James Marv Ronsom Denver Pyle Jonas Bailey

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Dick Crockett Will Peters Harry Lauter Mack Wilson