Vigilante Terror

Nov 15, 1953

1h 10m

★ 5.0

BLAZING GUNS were their badges as they struck in the night!

Overview

Vigilante Terror was one of the last of the "Wild Bill" Elliot westerns for Columbia. This time, Elliot comes to rescue an imperiled storekeeper. A band of masked vigilantes is laying waste to the countryside, and the storekeeper is blamed. Wild Bill saves the day by going undercover -- or under hood, as it were

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures

Westwood Productions

Vigilante Terror Trailers

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Cast

Tack Hamlin

Bill Elliott

Lucy Taylor

Mary Ellen Kay

Gene Smith

Robert Bray

Matt Taylor

I. Stanford Jolley

Mayor Winch

Henry Rowland

Brett

Myron Healey

Brewer

George D. Wallace

Strummer Jones

Fuzzy Knight

Bill

Zon Murray

Artie

Richard Avonde

Jamison

Michael Colgan

Henchman Sperry

Denver Pyle

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