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Topeka (1953)

Topeka (1953)

Western

A TRAIL OF GUNSMOKE DREW HIM TO TOPEKA!

Release Date: 1953, August 9
Directors: Thomas Carr
Countries: United States of America
Production: Westwood Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
Cast: Dale Van Sickel, Edward Clark, Henry Rowland, Dick Crockett, George Sowards, John James, Denver Pyle, Bill Elliott, Harry Lauter, Bill Coontz, Stanley Price, Fuzzy Knight

Overview:

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.

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