Across the Sierras

{{short description|1941 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Across the Sierras

| image = Across the Sierras.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = D. Ross Lederman

| producer = Leon Barsha

| screenplay = Paul Franklin

| starring = Wild Bill Elliott
Richard Fiske
Luana Walters

| cinematography = George Meehan

| editing = James Sweeney

| studio = Columbia Pictures

| distributor = Columbia Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1941|2|13}}

| runtime = 58 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Across the Sierras is a 1941 American western film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring Wild Bill Elliott, Richard Fiske and Luana Walters.Fetrow p.3{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/83101/Across-the-Sierras/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208020300/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/83101/Across-the-Sierras/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 8, 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |author=Hans J. Wollstein |date=2014 |title=Across the Sierras |access-date=November 30, 2014 }} It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is the fourth in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by North from the Lone Star.{{cite book |last1=Blottner |first1=Gene |title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years |date=2011 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486724 |chapter=Wild Bill Hickok }}

Plot

After six years in prison, Mitch Carew returns to Arroyo to seek his revenge on the two men who sent him to prison, shopkeeper Dan Woodworth and Wild Bill Hickok. Carew goads Woodworth into drawing a pistol allowing him to legally kill the elderly Woodworth in self-defence.

Meanwhile, Hickok rescues his ne'er do well friend Larry Armstrong from a lynch mob with the idea that both of them settle down on a ranch. Though Bill finds the love of an Eastern girl, the lure of adventure and the Code of the West lead the pair into trouble, gunplay and vengeance.

Cast

References

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Bibliography

  • Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.