The Wildcat of Tucson

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| name = The Wildcat of Tucson

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| director = Lambert Hillyer

| producer = Leon Barsha{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/wildcat-of-tucson-v117102/cast-crew|title=Wildcat of Tucson (1941) - Lambert Hillyer | Cast and Crew | AllMovie}}

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| screenplay = Fred Myton

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| starring = Wild Bill Elliott
Evelyn Young

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| cinematography = George Meehan

| editing = Charles Nelson

| studio = Columbia Pictures

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| released = {{Film date|1940|12|31|US}}

| runtime = 59 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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The Wildcat of Tucson is a 1940 American Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Bill Elliott as "Wild Bill" Hickok and Evelyn Young as Vivian Barlow.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhHut-gYeA0C&pg=PA150|title=Wild Bill Elliott: A Complete Filmography|first=Gene|last=Blottner|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2011|access-date=2017-10-09|chapter=The Wildcat of Tucson|pages=150–151|isbn=9780786480258|quote=Bill Elliott's presence, with a matching performance by Kenneth MacDonald, brings this western saga satisfactorily to the screen. [...] An interesting subplot has heroine Evelyn Young momentarily switching her affection from Stanley Brown to his brother, Eliott. Lambert Hillyer's direction is first rate.}}{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7996 |title=The Wildcat of Tucson |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute|access-date=2017-10-09|quote=Evelyn Young (Vivian Barlow) [...] When Bill rides to his brother's hideout accompanied by Vivian Barlow, the judge's daughter with whom Dave is in love, Dave becomes jealous and orders his brother to leave.}}{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUzc4If3M8gC&pg=PA312|chapter=Wild Bill Hickok|title=Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years|first=Gene|last=Blottner|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2011|pages=311–326|isbn=9780786486724|quote=Rancher Evelyn Young gives the farmers money to pay their debts on all supplies. The chemistry between Eliott and leading lady Evelyn Young is right on target. (Just look at the way Young touches Elliott's arm as he rides to talk with Kenneth Harlan, and the way she looks at him when the wagon train rolls through Lone Pine.|via=Google Books)}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Banner|location=Greencastle, Indiana|date=February 28, 1941|access-date=October 11, 2017|page=3|title=Previews and Reviews at Local Theaters|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=TDB19410228-01.1.3&srpos=7|quote=Bill Elliott is featured as the two-fisted star of the story and lovely Evelyn Young supplies the romantic interest.|via=Hoosier State Cronicles}} It is the third in Columbia Pictures' series of 12 "Wild Bill Hickok" films, followed by Across the Sierras.{{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 }}

The film was produced and released by Columbia Pictures. A feature film, its length is 59 minutes.