Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada$$ #7 ("Lost Canyon", 1942) (video)

 

Hoppy's Bar-20 friend Johnny is missing and presumed dead...

...after being wrongly accused of bank robbery and hunted by a posse.

When a crooked land baron makes the mistake of mouthing off about it in Hoppy's presence...


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada$$ #7 ("Lost Canyon", 1942) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada$$ #5 ("FORTY THIEVES", 1944) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) is marked for death by an outlaw boss and a crooked sheriff.

And when they challenge him to a gunfight on main street...

...it's one man against forty trigger-happy gunslingers.


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada$$ #5 ("FORTY THIEVES", 1944) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #5 ("FORTY THIEVES", 1944) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) is marked for death...

...by an outlaw boss (Douglass Dumbrille) and a crooked sheriff (Kirk Alyn).

But when they let a hand of cards decide which hired gun gets the first shot...

...Hoppy decides to deal himself into the game.


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #5 ("FORTY THIEVES", 1944) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #4 ("Hopalong Cassidy Returns", 1936) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) has his hands full as the new sheriff of a wide open town.

This includes keeping his younger brother Buddy (William Janney) out of trouble.

But it also puts him on the wrong side of a crooked saloon owner (Grant Richards) and his hired gun (Morris Ankrum).

(This film would be remade in 1941 as "Wide Open Town.")


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #4 ("Hopalong Cassidy Returns", 1936) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #3 ("Hopalong Cassidy Returns", 1936) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) becomes the new sheriff of the most lawless town in the territory.
He and his sidekick Windy (George "Gabby" Hayes) introduce themselves at the local saloon...

...which is owned by beautiful but bad Belle (Evelyn Brent).

Bad guy Morris Ankrum tries to intimidate Hoppy...

...but finds out quick that you don't want to be on Hoppy's bad side.

(This film would be remade in 1941 as "Wide Open Town.")


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #3 ("Hopalong Cassidy Returns", 1936) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #2 ("Three On The Trail", 1936) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) and Johnny (James Ellison) take on a gang...

...who robs stagecoaches and rustles cattle.

Old Windy ("Gabby" Hayes) gets in on it when they confront the big cheese, Pecos Kane (Onslow Stevens)...

...and the saloon is soon filled with gunsmoke.


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #2 ("Three On The Trail", 1936) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #1 ("WIDE OPEN TOWN", 1941) (video)

Hoppy (William Boyd) just became sheriff of an especially lawless town.

He and Lucky (Russell Hayden) decide to introduce themselves at the local saloon...

...which is owned by beautiful but bad Belle (Evelyn Brent).

Victor Jory and Glenn Strange try to get the best of him.

But nobody gets the best of Hoppy when he switches into "bada$$" mode.


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Hopalong Cassidy Being A Total Bada** #1 ("WIDE OPEN TOWN", 1941) (video)

Hopalong Cassidy's Historic First Appearance ("Hop-Along Cassidy", 1935) (video)

William Boyd starred as western hero Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy...

...in 66 wildly-popular feature films from 1935 to 1948.

Here we see his very first historic appearance.


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Hopalong Cassidy's Historic First Appearance ("Hop-Along Cassidy", 1935) (video)

THRILLING Stunt From Hopalong Cassidy Western "The Showdown" (1940) (video)

Sue (Jan Clayton) insists on hopping the next freight out of town.

When she runs into some trouble getting on...

...it's Hoppy (William Boyd) to the rescue.

The result is an amazing and dangerous stunt.


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THRILLING Stunt From Hopalong Cassidy Western "The Showdown" (1940) (video)

Blazing Saloon Fight in "Hoppy Serves A Writ" (1943) (video)

William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy") and Victor Jory clash...

...in one of the most furious, two-fisted saloon brawls ever filmed.

While the actors hold their own in the close shots...

...it's the stuntmen who really earned their paychecks that day.


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Blazing Saloon Fight in "Hoppy Serves A Writ" (1943) (video)

Robert Mitchum's Film Debut In A Hopalong Cassidy Western (video)

Robert Mitchum's first featured role was in "Hoppy Serves A Writ" (1943).

He was billed as "Bob Mitchum" and played an outlaw named Rigney. 

He would go on to appear in the series several more times.


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Robert Mitchum's Film Debut In A Hopalong Cassidy Western (video)