The Return of Wild Bill (1940)

Director
Joseph H. Lewis

Main cast
Bill Elliott; Iris Meredith; George Lloyd; Luana Walters; Edward LeSaint

Genres
Western

Description
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.


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