Sudden Bill Dorn

{{short description|1937 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Sudden Bill Dorn

| image = File:Sudden Bill Dorn.jpg

| caption =

| director = Ray Taylor

| producer = Buck Jones
Irving Starr

| writer = Frances Guihan
Jackson Gregory

| based_on =

| starring =Buck Jones
Noel Francis
Evelyn Brent

| music =

| cinematography = John Hickson
Allen Q. Thompson

| editing = Bernard Loftus

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| studio =Buck Jones Productions

| released = {{Film date|1937|12|01}}

| runtime =60 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Sudden Bill Dorn is a 1937 American Western film by Universal Pictures directed by Ray Taylor and starring Buck Jones, Noel Francis and Evelyn Brent.{{cite book| last1=Kear| first1=Lynn| last2=King| first2=James| title=Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook| date=2012| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0786443635| page=230| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_ODoCwz2EsC&q=Sudden+Bill+Dorn+film&pg=PA230 |accessdate=27 August 2017}} The film has been described as "slow-paced" and "confusing" with the plot and storyline being difficult to follow, typical of Jones' later Universal output of which Sudden Bill Dorn was the last.{{cite book |last1=Yoggy |first1=Gary A. |title=Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film and Television Actors |date=1998 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0786405664 |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLbMzGDhTOIC&q=%22Sudden+Bill+Dorn%22&pg=PA54| accessdate=27 August 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Loy| first1=R. Philip| title=Westerns and American Culture, 1930–1955 |date=2001 |publisher=McFarland| isbn=9780786481156| page=14| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6-zCgAAQBAJ&q=Sudden+Bill+Dorn+film&pg=PA14| accessdate=27 August 2017}}