The Man from Tumbleweeds (1940)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Bill Elliott	...	Wild Bill Saunders
	Iris Meredith	...	'Spunky' Cameron
	Dub Taylor	...	Cannonball
	Ray Bennett	...	Powder Kilgore (as Raphael Bennett)
	Francis Walker	...	Lightning Barlow
	Ernie Adams	...	Ranger "Shifty Sheldon' Dixon
	Al Hill	...	Ranger Honest John Webster
	Stanley Brown	...	Ranger Slash
	Richard Fiske	...	Henchman 'Kid' Dixon
	Edward LeSaint	...	Jeff Cameron
	Don Beddoe	...	Governor Dawson

Storyline

Powder Kilgore (Ray Bennett as Raphael Bennett) kills freighter Jeff Cameron (Edward LeSaint) and the latter's daughter, "Spunky" (Iris Meredith), sends for gunfighter Wild Bill Saunders (Bill Elliott, in another of his more than 195 films in which he was never, not once, billed as William 'Wild Bill' Elliott.) Bill finds that few men care to buck the Kilgore gang, and he gets consent from Governor Dawson (Don Beddoe) to form a state ranger's organization out of gunmen now in prison, the men to be pardoned if they prove themselves worthy. (A plot line used at least six times by writer/director Robert Emmett Tansey elsewhere in a ten year period.) Bill whips a Kilgore henchman, Lightning Barlow (Francis Walker), who is offering "Spunky" protection in return for a half-share in her freighting business. Bill jails Barlow and other Kilgore gang members when he and his "rangers" foil an attempted gold-shipment holdup... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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