Hands Across the Rockies (1941)

Hands Across the Rockies: Directed by Lambert Hillyer. With Bill Elliott, Mary Daily, Dub Taylor, Kenneth MacDonald. Wild Bill Hickock (Bill Elliott) and Cannonball (Dub Taylor) help two young people in love (Mary Daily and Stanley Brown) and bring the murderer (Kenneth MacDonald) of Cannonball’s father to justice.

“Wild Bill and Cannonball come to town to search out his fatheru0026#39;s killer, and get mixed up with a sinister romantic triangle.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor this front row kid turned geezer, the oater was something of a disappointment—in brief, not enough hard riding or fast shooting. Too much time is taken up with the trial. Itu0026#39;s got its compensations—Eddy Waller runs the proceedings in comically pugnacious fashion. But thereu0026#39;s still a lot of talk, not what I tune in for. Plus, I had to muffle my half-deaf ears when Cannonball shouts out that boisterous song in the enclosed stagecoach. Still, Taylor makes a good, mostly non-buffoonish sidekick. To me, Wild Bill was one of the few western heroes who could talk tough and make you believe it. I could have used more of that, as well. All in all, itu0026#39;s a mostly an indoor western.”