Topeka
Topeka
Overview
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
Cast
Bill Elliott
Phyllis Coates
Rick Vallin
Fuzzy Knight
John James
Denver Pyle
Dick Crockett
Harry Lauter
Dale Van Sickel
Ted Mapes
Henry Rowland
Edward Clark
I. Stanford Jolley
Bill Coontz
George Sowards
Michael Vallon
Stanley Price
Whitey Hughes
Leonard P. Geer
Crew
